Dataset Size Estimates
Users frequently ask and speculate about the total size, compressed and uncompressed, of a large dataset shared in the thread, with estimates varying from megabytes to terabytes.
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The author states it's about 100GB of data.
How much data (total size/count of files) do you have?
That's hundreds of megabytes of stuff isn't it?
It will be in the region of hundreds of GBs.
In case anyone was wondering, it's about 80MB zipped, 500MB unzipped.
Around 250GB, several terabytes once uncompressed I assume.
Less than 200KB each, doubt that's the bulk of it
It's still tens of GB, lots and lots of tens of GB.
I'd say it's around 50Mb.
And they took up more than 10 MB of data. The text itself is less than 10 kB!