Massive Data Storage Sizes

Comments focus on estimating, debating, and expressing surprise at enormous data volumes in terabytes, petabytes, and exabytes for various projects, archives, and datasets, often calculating storage hardware needs.

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ComplexSystems Feb 3, 2023 View on HN

Wouldn't this still be about 36 terabytes of data?

ChrisArchitect Feb 26, 2020 View on HN

How much data do you think it encompasses? Approaching/surpassing Petabytes?

loeg May 24, 2020 View on HN

> tens of GBtypo -- tens of TB?

UltraSane Nov 21, 2024 View on HN

Yes it must be almost an exabyte of data.

johnniedegen Mar 6, 2025 View on HN

however you need lots of terrabytes storage lol

photon-torpedo Nov 27, 2023 View on HN

At least 1.2PB...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2S2RMNv7OU

TomK32 Dec 13, 2023 View on HN

250TB, does that qualify as data hoarding?

kiska May 1, 2023 View on HN

Oh its definitely more than 50PB now, its more 129PB now

bfrog Jun 14, 2023 View on HN

I mean... 100tb is like 4 hard drives worth of data these days

marginalia_nu May 10, 2023 View on HN

Where are you going to store this data? It's dozens of petabytes.