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How much is 142 terabytes?

It's about as much as The LHC Data Generated per Second
The amount of The LHC Data Generated per Second is about 100 terabytes.
(a.k.a. Large Hadron Collider) (2008 figures)
Capturing millions of measurements per second on millions of subatomic particles, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) facility in Geneva generates 100 terabytes (tB) of data every second. Data collection arrays are placed throughout the LHC's 8.6 km (5.3 mi) circular track.
It's about as much as Despicable Me
The amount of Despicable Me is about 142 terabytes.
(2010) (Production data)
The 2010 digitally-animated film Despicable Me was developed by Illumination Entertainment and Mac Guff Ligne and used 142 terabytes (tB) of data. The film had a running time of 95 minutes.
It's about nine-tenths as much as The IRS Compliance Database
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The amount of The IRS Compliance Database is about 150 terabytes.
(a.k.a. Internal Revenue Service) (2006 figures)
The United States Internal Revenue Service's compliance database holds more than 150 terabytes (tB) of data on tax returns and other records. Each year of tax records occupies between 15 and 20 terabytes (tB).
It's about one-and-one-tenth times as much as The Hubble Telescope
The amount of The Hubble Telescope is about 120 terabytes.
(a.k.a. Hubble Space Telescope, a.k.a. HST) (2008 figures)
Between its launch in 1990 and 2008, the Hubble Space Telescope gathered 120 terabytes (tB) of images and other data about astronomical phenomena. Last upgraded during a service mission in 1999, the onboard computer of the Hubble Telescope has just 0.00000190 terabytes of operating memory (RAM) — less than most smartphones.
It's about three-fifths as much as Pandora
The amount of Pandora is about 250 terabytes.
(a.k.a. Pandora Radio) (2011 figures)
Pandora, the online radio and song recommendation service, stores 250 terabytes (gB) of music. Its music recommendation service categorizes each song in its library using 400 attributes and 2,000 attribute combinations.
It's about two times as much as The Google Earth database
The amount of The Google Earth database is about 70.50 terabytes.
(2006 figures) (raw imagery and indexes storage)
As of 2006, Google was storing 70.5 terabytes (tB) of raw image and index data for its satellite photo and virtual globe application, Google Earth. The application offers high resolution satellite imagery of 60% of the populated areas of the world, according to 2010 estimates.
It's about three-tenths as much as a Walmart's Mainframe
The amount of a Walmart's Mainframe is about 460 terabytes.
(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 three-and-a-half times as much as The Amazon.com's databases
The amount of The Amazon.com's databases is about 42.31540 terabytes.
(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 43.331 terabytes (tB) of data. Amazon.com receives over 615 million visits to its US website each year.
It's about one-fourth as much as YouTube's video database
The amount of YouTube's video database is about 530 terabytes.
(2008 figures) (video data only)
YouTube's collection of user-generated and commercially-produced videos measures about 530 terabytes (tB) in total data volume. Every minute, an average of 35 hours of new video content is uploaded to YouTube.
It's about one-fifth as much as The Ancestry.com's Census Records
The amount of The Ancestry.com's Census Records is about 600 terabytes.
(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 600 terabytes (tB) of data. According to company estimates, the project took 6.6 million hours (750 person-years) to complete.
It's about one-fifth as much as The Google database
The amount of The Google database is about 850 terabytes.
(2006 figures) (web crawler data; compressed)
As of 2006, the Google search engine database contained 850 terabytes (tB) 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 one-tenth as much as World of Warcraft
The amount of World of Warcraft is about 1,200 terabytes.
(a.k.a. WoW) (2009 figures) (total storage for Blizzard Entertainment)
World of Warcraft, the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), uses 1,300 terabytes 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 one-tenth as much as a Avatar
The amount of a Avatar is about 1,000 terabytes.
(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 1,000 terabytes 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 one-tenth as much as Facebook's Photo Storage
The amount of Facebook's Photo Storage is about 1,000 terabytes.
(2008 figures) (total storage)
Facebook, the popular social networking site, hosts about 1,000 terabytes of photos uploaded by its users as of 2008. Facebook users upload more than 2 terabytes (tB) of new photos to this collection every day.
It's about one-fifteenth as much as an Imgur's Monthly Bandwidth
The amount of an Imgur's Monthly Bandwidth is about 2,160 terabytes.
(Jan-Feb, 2012 figures)
Imgur, the free online image hosting service, used a total of 2,160 terabytes in bandwidth between January and February, 2012. The site has served up over 15 billion images in that time.
 
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