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I bought a thing the size of a pack of cigarettes that holds 2 terabytes. My question is, in what year was the total electronic data storage of the entire world equal to 2 terabytes?
I don't believe that the data is available to make such a determination.Hornbein said:My question is, in what year was the total electronic data storage of the entire world equal to 2 terabytes?
https://govbooktalk.gpo.gov/2014/03...m-1930s-readies-to-todays-gpo-ebook-services/Starting back in 1971, Michael S. Hart launched http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:About and digitized the U.S. Declaration of Independence, becoming the first eBook in the world. (To put the date into context, 1971 was the year that the first email message was ever sent– between two mainframe computers!) In 1985, the Voyager Company, a pioneer in CD-ROMs, was founded and published “expanded books” on CD-ROM including Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, and in 1993, Digital Book, Inc. offered the first 50 digital books on floppy disk.
Oops!jedishrfu said:I found some more anecdotal data regarding yahoo data storage vs the human brain here:
https://www.cnsnevada.com/what-is-the-memory-capacity-of-a-human-brain/
...125 trillion synapses – 4.7 bits/synapse, and about 1 trillion bytes equaling 1 TB (Terabyte).
2TB (terabytes) is a unit of measurement for digital storage capacity. It is equivalent to 2 trillion bytes or 2,000 gigabytes. This amount of storage is significant because it represents a large amount of data that can be stored and accessed on various devices.
In the past, 2TB of data storage was not commonly available. The first hard drive to reach 2TB of storage was released in 2009. Prior to this, the most common storage capacities were in the megabyte (MB) and gigabyte (GB) range.
2TB is equivalent to 2,000 gigabytes, 2 million megabytes, or 2 billion kilobytes. It is considered a large amount of storage and is often used for storing large files such as videos, photos, and music.
Since 2TB was first introduced, there have been many advancements in world data storage. We have seen the development of solid-state drives (SSDs) that can store even more data in smaller sizes, as well as cloud storage options that allow for virtually unlimited storage capacity.
The future of data storage is constantly evolving and expanding. As technology continues to advance, we can expect to see even larger storage capacities, potentially reaching into the petabyte (PB) and exabyte (EB) range. 2TB may be viewed as a relatively small amount of storage in the future, especially as data becomes more and more integral to our daily lives.