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How much is 0.002 exabytes?

It's about as much as a Human Brain
The amount of a Human Brain is about 0.0025 exabytes.
According to Northwestern University psychology professor Paul Reber, the capacity of the human brain is a theoretical 0.0024 exabytes. Each lobe of the brain consists of folded neural tissue with a total area, if unfolded, of about 0.24 sq. m.
It's about as much as The US Census Bureau
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The amount of The US Census Bureau is about 0.0025 exabytes.
(a.k.a. United States Census Bureau, a.k.a. Bureau of the Census) (2010 figures) (total active data)
The United States Census Bureau administers 0.0024 exabytes of demographic and population data gathered through the decennial census and other surveys. The Census Bureau makes the results of each census public 72 years after they are gathered.
It's about one-and-one-fifth times as much as an Imgur's Monthly Bandwidth
The amount of an Imgur's Monthly Bandwidth is about 0.00206 exabytes.
(Jan-Feb, 2012 figures)
Imgur, the free online image hosting service, used a total of 0.00206 exabytes in bandwidth between January and February, 2012. The site has served up over 15 billion images in that time.
It's about four-fifths as much as Netflix's catalog
The amount of Netflix's catalog is about 0.00306 exabytes.
(May, 2013 figures)
The uncompressed source copies of all the movies available for viewing on Netflix total 0.00307 exabytes. According to estimates, videos streamed from Netflix account for about 29% of all Internet traffic, as of 2013.
It's about two times as much as World of Warcraft
The amount of World of Warcraft is about 0.0012 exabytes.
(a.k.a. WoW) (2009 figures) (total storage for Blizzard Entertainment)
World of Warcraft, the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), uses 0.0013 exabytes of data for its operations. The game's development required about 5 years and included the enhancement of a proprietary 3D graphics engine developed for the prequel of the game.
It's about half as much as The Letters Delivered by the US Postal Service in 2010
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The amount of The Letters Delivered by the US Postal Service in 2010 is about 0.005 exabytes.
(2010 figures)
All letters delivered by the United States Postal Service in 2010 will equate to 0.005 exabytes of data if stored digitally. In delivering the mail, the Postal Service fleet travels a total of 1.25 billion miles annually.
It's about three times as much as a Avatar
The amount of a Avatar is about 0.0009 exabytes.
(a.k.a. James Cameron's Avatar, a.k.a. Avatar: An IMAX 3D experience) (production rendering data)
Using a combination of breakthrough techniques that ultimately made it the most expensive movie ever produced, the film Avatar required 0.001 exabytes of storage space for its computer rendering. According to some sources, each frame of the 166-minute movie took an average of 47 person-hours to complete.
It's about three times as much as The Google database
The amount of The Google database is about 0.00081 exabytes.
(2006 figures) (web crawler data; compressed)
As of 2006, the Google search engine database contained 0.00081 exabytes of compressed data about the web pages it had indexed while crawling the web. Each day, Google processes over one billion search requests.
It's about three times as much as Facebook's Photo Storage
The amount of Facebook's Photo Storage is about 0.0009 exabytes.
(2008 figures) (total storage)
Facebook, the popular social networking site, hosts about 0.001 exabytes of photos uploaded by its users as of 2008. Facebook users upload more than 0.00000200 exabytes of new photos to this collection every day.
It's about four times as much as The Ancestry.com's Census Records
The amount of The Ancestry.com's Census Records is about 0.0005 exabytes.
(2006 figures) (1790 to 1930 records only)
Updated in 2006 through a one-of-a-kind project, the genealogical research site Ancestry.com added 540 million names from records in the 1790 to 1930 US Census, capturing a total of 0.0006 exabytes of data. According to company estimates, the project took 6.6 million hours (750 person-years) to complete.
It's about five times as much as YouTube's video database
The amount of YouTube's video database is about 0.0005 exabytes.
(2008 figures) (video data only)
YouTube's collection of user-generated and commercially-produced videos measures about 0.00051 exabytes in total data volume. Every minute, an average of 35 hours of new video content is uploaded to YouTube.
It's about five-and-a-half times as much as a Walmart's Mainframe
The amount of a Walmart's Mainframe is about 0.00044 exabytes.
(a.k.a. Wal-Mart, a.k.a. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc) (2004 figures)
As of 2004, Walmart had accumulated nearly 460 terabytes of data about its customers, inventory, products, and sales. According to some estimates, the total area of all Walmart stores in the United States measures 64,000,000 sq. m.
It's about ten times as much as Pandora
The amount of Pandora is about 0.00024 exabytes.
(a.k.a. Pandora Radio) (2011 figures)
Pandora, the online radio and song recommendation service, stores 0.00024 exabytes of music. Its music recommendation service categorizes each song in its library using 400 attributes and 2,000 attribute combinations.
It's about sixteen times as much as The IRS Compliance Database
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The amount of The IRS Compliance Database is about 0.00015 exabytes.
(a.k.a. Internal Revenue Service) (2006 figures)
The United States Internal Revenue Service's compliance database holds more than 0.00014 exabytes of data on tax returns and other records. Each year of tax records occupies between 0.0000170 exabytes.
It's about seventeen-and-a-half times as much as Despicable Me
The amount of Despicable Me is about 0.000136 exabytes.
(2010) (Production data)
The 2010 digitally-animated film Despicable Me was developed by Illumination Entertainment and Mac Guff Ligne and used 0.000135 exabytes. The film had a running time of 95 minutes.
 
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