Recently we released a blog post to help people visualize the petabyte. This article seems to have hit home. We saw traffic to the website jump as websites, bloggers, and Twitter users picked up the article and passed it along.
To help you further visualize the petabyte: one petabyte is roughly one thousand terabytes, one million gigabytes, or one billion megabytes. That’s the space of 10,000 laptops, each with a 100 GB hard drive, on which you could store approximately one of the following:
- 13.3 years of HD-TV video
- 10 million yards of books on a shelf
- 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with text
- 250 million mp3 songs
Mozy currently stores more than 15 petabytes of customer files. It’s significant because Mozy is positioned to scale and take on large amounts of data. And being owned by Fortune 500 company EMC, we’re here for the long haul.
Be safe,
Ben Nettesheim
mozy.com