Storage is insane!

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so when I was born Kilobytes cost hundreds of dollars and a megabyte was out of this world. when I was in elementary school hard drives had hit capacities of dozens of megabytes. My first PC had 2 gigabytes. By the year 2000 I had 20+ gigs of storage. my first laptop had 60GB's my next desktop had 500. my second laptop has 640GB's they sell 1.5 terabyte hard drives today.... so I was wondering what the future holds for storage.

First we see what digital storage is. Just a line of 1's and 0's known as bits. a single 1 or 0 is a bit.

8 bits is a byte
8,192 bits is a kilobyte
8,388,608 bits in a megabyte
8,589,934,592 bits in a gigabyte
8,796,093,022,208 bits in a terabyte
9,007,199,254,740,990 bits in a petabyte
9,223,372,036,854,780,000 bits in an exabyte
9,444,732,965,739,290,000,000 bits in a zettabyte
9,671,406,556,917,030,000,000,000 bits in a yottabyte

Just how much data is that yottabyte? if you had a device that had a transfer rate of 3,833,478,626,378,200 bits per second, it would take 80 years to transfer a yottabyte.

3,833,478,626,378,200 bits per second is equal to 446,276 TB per SECOND!!!

so how long till we are beyond yottabytes??? lolol

For comparison, the entire contents of the US Library of Congress is 10TB. so you need to be able to transfer 44,627.6 Libraries of Congress per second in order to fill a yottabyte in 80 years