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How much Data Is That?

Posted in All on June 18th, 2004 · No Comments

How much of data can fit on a floppy, CDROM disk, or a hard drive? Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes… What can one store in one megabyte? How much storage one needs to store all Shakespear’s work?

There is an interesting attempt of visualizing storage data sizes here. It’s worth pointing one’s grandma here. :)

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