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How much is 980 exabytes?

It's about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 times as much as a Magnetic Stripe Card
The amount of a Magnetic Stripe Card is about 0.0000000000000000900 exabytes.
(maximum capacity; per ISO 7811 specification)
The storage capacity of a magnetic stripe on a credit or identification card is about 0.0000000000000001000 exabytes. According to legend, Forrest Parry, the IBM engineer who developed the first magnetic stripe card in 1960, was able to solve the problem of adhering the strip to the card after his wife suggested using an iron.
It's about 450,000,000,000,000,000 times as much as a Page of Text
The amount of a Page of Text is about 0.00000000000000210 exabytes.
(50 lines, 50 characters per line, ASCII encoding)
A 50-character-per-line, 50-line page of Latin alphabet text requires 0.00000000000000220 exabytes when digitally represented. The Google Books project, which has produced hundreds of millions of pages of digital text, used a robotic device to digitize over eight million titles at a rate of about 1,000 pages per second.
It's about 750,000,000,000,000 times as much as a Floppy Disk (3½-in)
The amount of a Floppy Disk (3½-in) is about 0.000000000001278980 exabytes.
(high density, IBM PC format)
Despite common reference to them as "1.44" megabyte (mB) disks, the actual capacity of the most common model of a 3&-in (8.9 cm) floppy disk is 0.000000000001278980 exabytes. At the height of their use 1996, there were an estimated five billion disks in use — nearly one for each person on Earth at the time.
It's about 700,000,000,000,000 times as much as a Digital Photo
The amount of a Digital Photo is about 0.00000000000140 exabytes.
(5.3 megapixels, JPEG compression, 100% quality, 24 bits/pixel)
A 5.3-megapixel digital camera photo requires about 0.00000000000140 exabytes of storage space. In 2010, it was expected that 90% of all professionally-taken photographs would be digital instead of film.
It's about 400,000,000,000,000 times as much as a MP3 Song
The amount of a MP3 Song is about 0.00000000000300 exabytes.
(a.k.a. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, a.k.a. MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3) (128 Kbps, "near-CD-quality"; 3 minutes duration; average)
A three-minute song of typical quality will be about 0.00000000000300 exabytes when encoded into MP3 format. The song Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega was used by AT&T-Bell Labs engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg to test the compression process and is considered the first MP3 song.
It's about 200,000,000,000,000 times as much as The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The amount of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is about 0.00000000000480 exabytes.
(ASCII, plain text)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare would occupy about 0.00000000000480 exabytes when written in plain text without formatting. These works include 38 definitively-attributed plays — 11 tragedies, 17 comedies, and 10 tragedies — as well as 154 sonnets and numerous other poems.
It's about 1,500,000,000,000 times as much as a Compact Disc
The amount of a Compact Disc is about 0.00000000067060 exabytes.
(80-minute, 360,000 sector disc; "Red Book" specifications)
A typical, 80-minute capacity compact disc, commonly known as a 0.00000000063660 exabytes disc will actually hold 0.00000000067060 exabytes of data. Such disks are 1.2 mm (0.047 in) thick.
It's about 250,000,000,000 times as much as an HDTV Television Show (30 Minutes)
The amount of an HDTV Television Show (30 Minutes) is about 0.000000003930 exabytes.
(a.k.a. High Definition television, a.k.a. HD) (digital signal, QAM-256; 30 minutes)
Broadcast cable HDTV signals contain about 0.000000000002180 exabytes of data per second, or 0.000000003930 exabytes in a thirty-minute television show. The first High Definition television broadcast was news footage from John Glenn's 1998 mission on the space shuttle Discovery.
It's about 200,000,000,000 times as much as a DVD
The amount of a DVD is about 0.00000000440 exabytes.
(a.k.a. digital video disc) (single-side, single-layer; DVD-5 specification)
A typical capacity digital video disc will hold 0.00000000440 exabytes of data. Such disks are 1.2 mm (0.047 in) thick.
It's about 20,000,000,000 times as much as a Blu-ray Disc
The amount of a Blu-ray Disc is about 0.0000000460 exabytes.
(a.k.a. BD) (dual-layer; Blu-ray disc)
A typical Blu-ray disc will hold 0.0000000470 exabytes of data. The increase in capacity versus a standard DVD is possible because of the smaller wavelength of blue light — 405 nanometers instead of 650 nanometers for the red laser light used in a DVD.
It's about 20,000,000,000 times as much as Wikipedia
The amount of Wikipedia is about 0.0000000490 exabytes.
(2009 figures) (all languages)
As of 2009, Wikipedia held 0.0000000490 exabytes of publicly written and edited encyclopedia articles on 14.5 million subjects as well as associated commentary and discussion. Wikipedia is among the ten most popular websites on the Internet and the only non-profit entity in that group.
It's about 6,500,000,000 times as much as an iPod
The amount of an iPod is about 0.0000001490 exabytes.
(a.k.a. Apple iPod) (2010 figures; for iPod classic, sixth generation)
A sixth-generation, iPod classic MP3 player offers a storage capacity of 0.0000001490 exabytes. Data is stored in the unit's hard drive, a 5,400 RPM SATA drive, which measures about 30 sq. cm (5 sq. in)
It's about 250,000,000 times as much as Watson
The amount of Watson is about 0.00000380 exabytes.
(data store only)
Watson, the IBM supercomputer famous for competing against humans on the televised trivia game show Jeopardy!, utilizes 0.00000380 exabytes of variously-structured data to formulate answers. While "thinking", Watson processes about 0.000000470 exabytes of data per second.
It's about 200,000,000 times as much as a Gap, Inc. Customer Database
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The amount of a Gap, Inc. Customer Database is about 0.00000600 exabytes.
(a.k.a. The GAP Companies, a.k.a. Gap) (2012 figures)
The GAP Inc., the corporate parent of GAP store, Old Navy, and Banana Republic, has accumulated over 0.00000700 exabytes of data on almost a billion customers. The GAP, Inc remains the largest apparel retailer in the United States and was the largest in the world from the mid-1990s until about 2008.
It's about 25,000,000 times as much as The Amazon.com's databases
The amount of The Amazon.com's databases is about 0.00004035510 exabytes.
(largest databases only; 2005 figures)
Amazon.com maintains information on the millions of items sold on it's e-Commerce website and the websites of its affiliate companies, as well as information on customer orders and browsing history, and excerpts from nearly a quarter-billion books in databases totaling an estimated 0.00004132370 exabytes of data. Amazon.com receives over 615 million visits to its US website each year.
 
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