

2 Exabytes: Total volume of information generated worldwide annually.200 Petabytes: All printed material OR production of digital magnetic tape in 1995.20 Petabytes: Production of hard-disk drives in 1995.8 Petabytes: All information available on the Web.In most computer architectures it is a unit of memory addressing. 2 Petabytes: All US academic research libraries Byte : The byte is a basic unit of measurement for data storage that consists of eight bits.1 Petabyte: 3 years of EOS data (2001).400 Terabytes: National Climactic Data Center (NOAA) database.

Megabyte to byte movie#
1 Gigabyte: a pickup truck filled with paper OR a symphony in high-fidelity sound OR a movie at TV quality.500 Megabytes: A CD-ROM OR the hard disk of a PC.200 Megabytes: A reel of 9-track tape OR an IBM 3480 cartridge tape.100 Megabytes: 1 meter of shelved books OR a two-volume encyclopaedic book.10 Megabytes: A minute of high-fidelity sound OR a digital chest X-ray.5 Megabytes: The complete works of Shakespeare OR 30 seconds of TV-quality video.

2 Megabytes: A high resolution photograph.1 Megabyte: A small novel OR a 3.5 inch floppy disk.500 Kilobytes: A very heavy box of punched cards.100 Kilobytes: A low-resolution photograph.50 Kilobytes: A compressed document image page.10 Kilobytes: An encyclopaedic page OR a deck of punched cards.100 bytes: a telegram ORr a punched card.Williams "Data Powers of Ten" page at Caltech.
