How many gigabytes of all the world's information?

All analog and digital information recorded in 1986-2007 the number of adhering GB of space on hard drives should be recorded?


News, books hard drives, DVDs, until manual borşürlerine all the 'information storage' What is the size of the total information aracılarındaki? For a long time researchers working on this account for the year 2007 295 egzabayt response, ie, 295 billion gigabytes.

Was conducted at the University of Southern California, 25 information technology company, and some publishers, recording and storage of data compiled between the years 1986-2007, and from there reached the estimated quantities.

The team from CDs, hard disks, X-ray films of the credit cards, chips, newspapers, brochures, books, and took into account all existing registered information. According to the estimated figure obtained any kind of information which is currently stored analog and digital environments, the average fit in the hard disk with a capacity of 1.2 billion.

Team leader Dr. Martin Hilbert, a stack of books that would result if this information is printed as a book three times the surface area of ​​the United States or China kaplanabileceğini the area, he said. If information is written to the CD, they can be achieved by stacking a tower that extends beyond the Moon.

Previously, in kilobytes, megabytes, leaving behind unit quantities measured in gigabytes and terabytes of digital storage has reached the size. Them, watching petabytes and egzobayt units. Egzobayt 1 is equivalent to 1 billion gigabytes.