Jun
30
2008
How many bits in a byte?
0How many bits in a byte?
First.. a little lesson.
There are 8 bits in a byte.
1,024 bytes in a kilobyte.
1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte.
1,073,741,824 bytes in a gigabyte.
1,099,511,627,776 bytes in a terabyte.
1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes in a petabyte.
Got all that?
Your collection of 260,000 songs takes up about 1 Terabyte.
20 Terabytes of photos are uploaded to Facebook each month
The Hubble space telescope has collected 120 Terabytes of data and images
The National Climatic Data Center has collected 460 Terabytes of Data
All the videos on YouTube consume 530 Terabytes
Ancestry.com's Genealogy database is 600 Terabytes
1 Petabyte is the amount of data processed by Google's servers every 72 minutes
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