Not really Tech Support, but I haz question

[¥Mderms¥]

....So if a person had 1 yottabyte space on their computer, then they're awesome?

Yes.

[Tanxs1]

And how much would 1 yottabyte of memory cost? .

[Bleak]

Of memory? Not that much memory exists.

Not that much storage space exists either.

(They're 2 different things - memory is RAM and storage is hard drives/SSD's)

[TUR80]

can u imagine a yotta gram or yotta meter!

[BFM_Kiwi]

Text - book might be around 1MB or so  ( each byte = 1 letter/character, so 1 page might be 2-3KB, times 300 pages = 1MB, text only, no images)

Photos - around 1MB per image (6 megapixel camera, good quality JPG), or 6-10MB for the "RAW" lossless format

Music
      MP3 - 5-10 MB per song, but depends on format, bitrate.
      WAV (uncompressed) about 40MB-ish per song

Video - tens or hundreds of MB per minute, and several GB for full length movie (good quality)


CD = 650MB, holds a typical (WAV uncompressed) music album of 10-15 songs, or if you burn MP3 you could fit roughly 100 songs
DVD = 4.7GB, holds typical full length movie of 90-120 minutes


1KB - around a half a page of text
1MB - an entire book (text only), one photo (JPG), or less than a minute of MP3 music
1GB - a highly compressed (lower quality) movie, or a high quality 20-30 TV show
1TB - hundreds of movies, millions of photos, every book (text only) in your public library?

So text files are typically measured in KB, images in MB, music in MB or tens of MB, compressed video clips in 10's of MB, and high quality video in 100's of MB or in GB, depending on length

Above are all very rough, pls don't nitpick my estimates or I will sulk.

[HLN Rockhpc]

....So if a person had 1 yottabyte space on their computer, then they're awesome?

Yes.

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111!!!111!1111

fyi:  I will still be lol'ing at that tomorrow.

[¥Mderms¥]

....So if a person had 1 yottabyte space on their computer, then they're awesome?

Yes.

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111!!!111!1111

fyi:  I will still be lol'ing at that tomorrow.

Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week!

*bows deeply*

[¥Mderms¥]

And how much would 1 yottabyte of memory cost? .

Well, theoretically of course...

if you take the Average cost of a 1TB External HD (I'll just say 100$USD for simplicity sake)...

One YottaByte = 1,099,511,627,776 Terabytes so it would cost you...


...


$109,951,162,777,600 USD

(one hundred and nine trillion, nine hundred and fifty nine billion, one hundred sixty two million, seven hundred seventy seven thousand, six hundred).

...

OR...

£170,292,360,909,946.9 British Pound Sterlings for you Tanxs. 

(one hundred seventy trillion, two hundred ninety two billion, three hundred sixty million, nine hundred nine thousand, six hundred forty six... point nine...)

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BRB. Need to take an Aspirin...  

[BFM_saes]

You can easily buy 2TB drives for just under $100US.

Since each of these drives is actually ~1.8189894TB, you'd need ~6.04462911e11 of these drives to make up a single yottabyte.
Thus, using only 2TB drives, it'd cost you ~$6.04462911e13USD ($60 446 291 100 000) if current retail prices held for your entire purchase...

I, for one, certainly wouldn't want to trust that much data to a bunch of WD drives...

[MrMxyzptlk]

Fairly well said all, except that ... you're ALL WRONG!    (Except sæs» & Kiwi!)

 


You see, all these computer "size" terms used to be for us nerds, geeks, and hacks (back when those were all REVERED titles!)  Hence we KNEW BY DEFAULT that they all represented powers of two (due to the binary nature of basic computer construction*.)  Hence when we said "a megabyte" we all knew that that meant 2²⁰ - or 1,048,576 8-bit bytes.  I.e.: "About a million."

When computers became "commonplace" these terms got "confused" to instead mean EXACTLY a REAL million - 1,000,000 - by non-computer types, and when computers became commodity items THIS became the new norm for the terminology. (Unfortunately!   )

So, computerdom had to come up with new terms to represent the TRUE values in some distinguishable fashion, since there was NO WAY to force the general population of non-technical "computer-savvy" world to change their usurped meanings of the named values.  

So officially, NOW the term "megabyte" means 1,000,000 8-bit bytes.

The NEW TECHNICAL TERM for computer professionals for what USED to be "a megabyte" (2²⁰ 8-bit bytes) is now ... get ready ... a "mebibyte."    (Basically/simply put all the "-ga"s and "-ta"s became "-bib"s....)

So, enough background!  Now on to answer the original question of this thread!: "What are the general magnitudes of some common file types," etc....

A: Visit this table!


* Yes, people have tried - and sort-of succeeded somewhat - to build tristate computers, but they never caught on....

[HLN Rockhpc]

Fairly well said all, except that ... you're ALL WRONG!    (Except sæs» & Kiwi!)

 


You see, all these computer "size" terms used to be for us nerds, geeks, and hacks (back when those were all REVERED titles!)  Hence we KNEW BY DEFAULT that they all represented powers of two (due to the binary nature of basic computer construction*.)  Hence when we said "a megabyte" we all knew that that meant 2²⁰ - or 1,048,576 8-bit bytes.  I.e.: "About a million."

When computers became "commonplace" these terms got "confused" to instead mean EXACTLY a REAL million - 1,000,000 - by non-computer types, and when computers became commodity items THIS became the new norm for the terminology. (Unfortunately!   )

So, computerdom had to come up with new terms to represent the TRUE values in some distinguishable fashion, since there was NO WAY to force the general population of non-technical "computer-savvy" world to change their usurped meanings of the named values.  

So officially, NOW the term "megabyte" means 1,000,000 8-bit bytes.

The NEW TECHNICAL TERM for computer professionals for what USED to be "a megabyte" (2²⁰ 8-bit bytes) is now ... get ready ... a "mebibyte."    (Basically/simply put all the "-ga"s and "-ta"s became "-bib"s....)

So, enough background!  Now on to answer the original question of this thread!: "What are the general magnitudes of some common file types," etc....

A: Visit this table!


* Yes, people have tried - and sort-of succeeded somewhat - to build tristate computers, but they never caught on....

^ Mxy pwnz.