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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (9037)	4/18/2001 8:52:06 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9256

Nice post on the need for storage over the next few years below. Thanks to David Lethe. It is amazing to me that we still have to wonder if the drive companies will make any money while manufacturing the building blocks for all that storage: Interesting tidbit on growth of storage, I got this from the SNIA show last week. "It's taken 300,000 years for humans to accumulate 12 exabytes of information ... It will take just 2.5 more years to create the next 12 exabytes 50 GB = 1 Library floor of books 2 Terabytes = An entire academic research library 2 Petabytes = All US Academic Research Libraries 5 Exabytes = All words ever spoken by human beings" Source: University of California at Berkely: "How Much Information" Study. And to save some of you the trouble. Kilobytes -> Megabytes -> Gigabytes -> Terabytes -> Petabytes -> Exabytes -> Zettabytes -> Yottabytes. So .. is this a great business or what?!! David Message 15678151