The case of the 1 Exabyte Ipod
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So aparently my 5G iPod can hold a lot more music than the supposed 30GB that it claims in the manual
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TRWTF is that you could never fill that. Supposedly all words ever spoken by humans is less than 5 exabytes, so recorded music would be much less :)Though that's not to say I wouldn't want that iPod.
Edit: Nearly forgot to mention: NIN FTW!
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@mentaldingo said:
TRWTF is that you could never fill that. Supposedly all words ever spoken by humans is less than 5 exabytes, so recorded music would be much less :)
But sound takes up orders of magnitude more data for the same verbal content.
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@dhromed said:
@mentaldingo said:
TRWTF is that you could never fill that. Supposedly all words ever spoken by humans is less than 5 exabytes, so recorded music would be much less :)
But sound takes up orders of magnitude more data for the same verbal content.
suppose a minute of mp3 compressed music at 128kbps is ~1MB.
1MB=1024 bytes
1EB=1024^6 bytes
1EB / 1MB = 1125899906842624MB ~= 1125899906842624 Minutes
1125899906842624 Minutes ~= 18764998447377 Hours
18764998447377 Hours ~= 781874935307 Days
781874935307 Days ~= 2142123110 Years (Rounding to the nearest integer and not accounting for leap years...)
Assume a history of recorded music began in 1889 with the commercial production of phonographs, hence 118 years of possible music. Then:
2142123110 Years / 118 Years ~= 18153585 Musicians, recording constantly for the past 118 years...
You'd have to have some music collection to fill that much space. Maybe he could have a complete recorded history of every important conversation that has taken place since 1889.
Disclaimer: These calculations are pointless and inaccurate. I'm just bored.
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(1 exabyte) / (4.7 gigabytes) = 228 455 707
You'd better start ripping those DVDs now instead of waiting till it's too late...
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@Volmarias said:
(1 exabyte) / (4.7 gigabytes) = 228 455 707
You'd better start ripping those DVDs now instead of waiting till it's too late...
Or I could just buy 1.000.000 1TB external disc, wonder how long it would take me to backup all that...
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@PerdidoPunk said:
@dhromed said:
@mentaldingo said:
TRWTF is that you could never fill that. Supposedly all words ever spoken by humans is less than 5 exabytes, so recorded music would be much less :)
But sound takes up orders of magnitude more data for the same verbal content.
suppose a minute of mp3 compressed music at 128kbps is ~1MB...
Then clearly the solution is to store the music at 128Mbps. That should speed things up.
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So that's what they sell under the counter...
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Haha now mine's reporting at 16 exabytes in Amarok. http://bytten.net/random/16xb-ipod.jpg
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@PerdidoPunk said:
Disclaimer: These calculations are pointless and inaccurate. I'm just bored.
I wish you had put that disclaimer up front
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@savar said:
@PerdidoPunk said:
Disclaimer: These calculations are pointless and inaccurate. I'm just bored.
I wish you had put that disclaimer up front
then nobody would bother to read it!
