NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepository


	NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepository

sincitykitty

11-2-2009 9:08 AM

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sincitykitty says:

There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte, a thousand terabytes in a petabyte, a thousand petabytes in an exabyte, a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte, and a thousand zettabytes in a yottabyte. In other words, a yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB. Are you paranoid yet?

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