a yottabyte is a spetillion byte ...

[Phil]

Look out for pyramids springing up across the continental USA...

Phil M1GWZ

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On 27 Jul 2013, at 17:07, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:

> 
> The Wikipedia article on "yottabyte" saved me the requirement of doing
> my own Fermi-question-style order of magnitude calculation.
> 
> I think it's safe to say that the NSA is not going to be storing 
> "yottabytes" of data.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte
> 
> -r
> 
> Phil <philmt59 at aol.com> writes:
> 
>> IS there that much data?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Phil M1GWZ
>> 
>> Sent from my iMagination
>> 
>> On 26 Jul 2013, at 16:41, Andre Kesteloot <[[andre.kesteloot at verizon.net]]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>               A 2012 article in Wired reported that NSA needs the
>>     megaplex [in Utah] partially because the Pentagon wants to expand
>>     the military global communications network to manage yottabytes of
>>     data. âoeA yottabyte is a septillion bytesâ''so large that no one
>>     has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude,âY\.. the
>>     article said. âoeShould the agency ever fill the Utah center with a
>>     yottabyte of information, it would be equal to about 500 quintillion
>>     (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text.âY\.. NSA officials told
>>     Government Executive, however, they do not discuss such operational
>>     details. 
>> 
>> 
>>     [[http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2013/07/nsas-big-dig/67406/]]
>> 
>> 
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