The Petabyte Age : Storage Stats

I am quite amazed when I came across the following storage stats.

Facebook has just over 1.5 petabyte of users' photos stored, translating into roughly 10 billion photos.^[8] http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919&ref=mf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte#cite_note-7

· Telecoms: AT&T has about 16 petabytes of data transferred through their networks each day.^[3]

· Archives: The Internet Archive contains about 3 petabytes of data, and is growing at the rate of about 100 terabytes per month as of March, 2009.^[4][5]

· Internet: Google processes about 20 petabytes of data per day.^[6]

· Physics: The 4 experiments in the Large Hadron Collider will produce about 15 petabytes of data per year, which will be distributed over the LHC Computing Grid.^[7]

· Social networks: Facebook has just over 1.5 petabyte of users' photos stored, translating into roughly 10 billion photos.^[8]

· P2P networks: Isohunt has about 1.6 petabytes of files contained in torrents indexed globally.^[9]

· Online storage: RapidShare stated in April 2008 that it had 5.4 petabytes of storage for users.^[10]

The following article gives a brief introduction about Peta Byte Storage

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_intro

Cost of a Petabyte

Interesting statistics explained (quite nicely) by Backblaze: http://bit.ly/NnW2Q