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Re:Yottabyte: This Will Never Exist by Grakel on Thursday November 04, 2021 @04:03PM (#29111887)
How much data does humanity currently have stored on hard drives? I think saying there will never be yottabyte storage is very short sighted.
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Re:Yottabyte: This Will Never Exist by eindiran on Thursday November 04, 2021 @04:17PM (#29112049)
This gives you a rough idea, but it has increased a lot since 2012: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/11/how-big-is-a-petab...

A lot of companies are producing many petabytes a day of logs and data.

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