a yottabyte is a spetillion byte ...

[Rob Seastrom]

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?
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> Phil M1GWZ
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> Sent from my iMagination
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> On 26 Jul 2013, at 16:41, Andre Kesteloot <[[andre.kesteloot at verizon.net]]>
> wrote:
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>                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. 
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>      [[http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2013/07/nsas-big-dig/67406/]]
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