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.
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.