How many 1TB HDD would it take to download the internet?

[Strife212]

:/

 

[janesssssy]

From wikipedia:

In fact, the combined space of all the computer hard drives in the entire world does not amount to even one yottabyte

As of 2009 the entire internet was estimated to contain close to 500 exabytes

524 288 000 terabytes

 

[Klo]

500,000,000.

Oops, only out by a factor of 1000

 

[SiD the Turtle]

I'm sure there is a poster image with all the info on this around...

This one's quite nice, if you want to visualise a mere petabyte:

 

[Deschutes]

I would say more than there is 1TB drives!

 

[oneale90]

That poster image Is quite interesting !

 

[silversurfer]

Just select Best compression on winrar and its all good.

Anyone remember some hard disk compression software from the early ninities. It could turn a 130mb drive into 180, I swear that'd still be good now

 

[apatia77]

Depending how you define the internet. I imagine it's going to be a lot of hard drives.

 

[OriginalJonty]

42.

EDIT: Ninja'd by Castor!

 

[Ciphon]

I'd never even heard of an exabyte until I read this thread!

I guess as wiki said 2009 needed 500 exabyte's, we'll probably be needing 550 by now?

 

[Alex74]

How many 1TB HDD would you need and how many hours would it take on a typical 200 kbps British line?

problem is that the internet is growing at a much faster rate than 200 kbps, and the rate of growth is also increasing over time...

524 288 000 terabytes

..sooo much porn

 

[ps3ud0]

Infinite amount as by the time you had copied it over there would be always at least another 1Tb to download so you would never stop...

ps3ud0

 

[estebanrey]

Say you wanted to download the whole of the contents of the internet. Say adding content was frozen from now.

How many 1TB HDD would you need and how many hours would it take on a typical 200 kbps British line?

Sorry to be pedantic but I think you mean the contents of the World Wide Web and not the Internet.

If you want all the content of the WWW then you would need all the HDDs that currently reside in any web server server.

If you wanted the entire "internet" then you would need all the HDDS connected to it, including mine and you aint getting that without a fight

 

[xiphrex]

OVER 9000!

 

[nst68]

already been done

 

[MajorMaccas]

I remember a factoid statistic from Jeremy Clarkson's Speed series back in the early naughties, about how all the computers on the internet exchange more data every second/minute/hour/day/whatever it was, than man has had conversations since he could talk.

(Not women however, those walking gossip columns are outpacing the net easily)

 

['Wes]

You couldn't, something new get's posted every second of the day.

 

[Sp00n]

You would need ∞ hdd's.

 

[Side5wipe]

a few vhs tapes should do it

On long play

 

[estebanrey]

I remember a factoid statistic from Jeremy Clarkson's Speed series back in the early naughties, about how all the computers on the internet exchange more data every second/minute/hour/day/whatever it was, than man has had conversations since he could talk.

That comparison doesn't make sense????

You would need ∞ hdd's.

Not unless there are a ∞ number of HDDs currently sat inside all the World's web servers (which all added together is the Internet -or more accurately the world wide web).

It's simple, you need at least the same amount of space that every webserver in the world takes up.....Whilst the WWW is sat on hard drives, you'd need all of them to hold the web.....think about it!!