• Darken@reddthat.com
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    2 years ago

    14000 4k movies… How many football fields is that?

    or maybe… how many terabytes…

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      2 years ago

      1.6 Petabits or 200TB

      The article says “What is that in terms humans understand,” then does some math, and produces the figure of 14000 4k movies.

      I’m a human and 200TB makes a lot more sense to me than 14000 4k movies. That isn’t a standard unit. 14000 4k movies means nothing. You can have a 4k movie that’s 200GB (that’d be 2.8PB) or 2GB (that’d be 28TB). What’s the bit rate? In the article they mentioned that they just assumed that a 4k 2 hour long movie is 14GB.

      What I’m way more concerned about is how expensive the disks and readers/writers are. According to the article, the disks are manufactured similarly to the CD, but what about the readers/writers? Could we see these as competitors to HDDs? 200TB is friggin insane, at a good price you’d be spending 2 grand on that much HDD storage.