Flickr just announced they have reached 5,000,000,000 picture uploads yesterday. What does that mean? Nowadays, you can purchase 2TB hard disk drives for less than $200. How many of these drives would you need to store 5,000,000,000 pictures, assuming each picture is minimally about 2MB on average.
Well, I threw the numbers in the calculator, and this is what it means. You would need 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of storage space so you would need to buy 5000 of those 2TB drives to hold 5 billion pictures. They are probably using various storage configurations which would require more than 5000 drives but roughly speakingCool!
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