Tuesday, March 6th 2007
IDC claims world created 161 exabytes of digital data
That's right, according to market analysis firm IDC, the world made a whopping 161 billion gigabytes (161 exabytes) of data just last year. This figure comes from a massive digital roll call of everything that was posted on the internet, including music, movies, IM's, Emails, and pornography. However, this figure may be a bit overblown. The study made the generous assumption that all the data was copied three times, and also included "analog" things such as radio broadcasts in their byte count. Regardless, that is still a lot of data.
Source:
The Inquirer
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And how much storage is wasted due to inefficient blocksizes or FAT32.