What Would 10 Petabytes Look Like? [Infographic]

Backblaze is s service that backs up pictures, documents and other media. Services such as these store amounts of data that can at times seem abstract.

In a blog post, the Backblaze team showed what 10 petabytes actually looks like. One one level, 10 petabytes is double the entire Internet archive.

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Here are some other views on how this could be illustrated.

You can think of it in terms of pods:

Or by the number of drives it equals:

Here’s the most compelling. Stacked on top of each other the drives would rise higher than the tallest buildings in the world:

Kind of shows why all those data centers are getting built. Doesn’t it?

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