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Wow. For scale, the Internet Archive had 5.8 petabytes of data in December 2010 [1] - so, about 9 grams' worth. How much did this cost?

[1] http://archive.org/web/petabox.php



i think you have the numbers wrong. at least in the supplement of our paper we say a petabyte would weigh ~1.5 milligram. It would be far too expensive to do that though; about 6-8 orders of magnitude increase in scale is necessary from current technologies. that said, we've seen that kind of drop over the last decade or so; here's to keeping it going.




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