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* Supercomputers: In January 2012, Cray began construction of the ], which has "up to 500 petabytes of tape storage".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/bluewaters|title=About Blue Waters}}</ref> |
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* Supercomputers: In January 2012, Cray began construction of the ], which has "up to 500 petabytes of tape storage".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/bluewaters|title=About Blue Waters}}</ref> |
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* Data storage system: In August 2011, IBM was reported to have built the largest storage array ever, with a capacity of 120 petabytes.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38440/|title=IBM Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever|last=Simonite|first=Tom|date=25 August 2011|work=Technology Review|accessdate=18 October 2011}}</ref> |
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* Data storage system: In August 2011, IBM was reported to have built the largest storage array ever, with a capacity of 120 petabytes.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38440/|title=IBM Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever|last=Simonite|first=Tom|date=25 August 2011|work=Technology Review|accessdate=18 October 2011}}</ref> |
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* Databases: ] Database 12 has a capacity of 50 petabytes of compressed data.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.teradata.com/t/products-and-services/database/teradata-12/ |title=Teradata Database 12.0 - Database Management - SQL Database |publisher=Teradata.com |accessdate=16 August 2009}}</ref><ref name=BBC20040920>{{Cite news|title=Thanks for memory (but I need more) |first=Paul | last=Rubens |date=20 September 2004 |newspaper=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3673262.stm |quote=Of course there's no such thing as a petabyte iPod, but the good news is that we may not have too long to wait for one. Hitachi Data Systems already sells a product called the TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform which can manage up to 32 petabytes of storage for the very largest corporations, so you'd have to conclude that a pocket-sized consumer version isn't out of the question in a decade or so.}}</ref> |
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* Data mining: In August 2012, ]'s ] clusters include the largest single ] cluster known, with more than 100 PB physical disk space in a single HDFS filesystem.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-hadoop-distributed-filesystem-reliability-with-namenode-and-avata/10150888759153920 |title=Under the Hood: Hadoop Distributed Filesystem reliability with Namenode and Avatarnode |publisher=Facebook |date= |accessdate=14 April 2013}}</ref> Yahoo stores 2 petabytes of data on behavior.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lai|first=Eric|title=Size matters: Yahoo claims 2-petabyte database is world's biggest, busiest|url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9087918/Size_matters_Yahoo_claims_2_petabyte_database_is_world_s_biggest_busiest?taxonomyId=18&intsrc=hm_topic|work=Computerworld|accessdate=13 March 2013}}</ref> |
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* Digital archives: The ] surpassed 15 petabytes, {{as of|2014|05|lc=on}}.<ref>{{cite news|last=Brownell|first=Brett|title=Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet|url=https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/05/internet-archive-wayback-machine-brewster-kahle|accessdate=29 May 2014|newspaper=Mother Jones|date=22 May 2014}}</ref> |
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* Digital archives: The ] surpassed 15 petabytes, {{as of|2014|05|lc=on}}.<ref>{{cite news|last=Brownell|first=Brett|title=Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet|url=https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/05/internet-archive-wayback-machine-brewster-kahle|accessdate=29 May 2014|newspaper=Mother Jones|date=22 May 2014}}</ref> |
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* Email: In May 2013, ] announces that as part of their migration of Hotmail accounts to the new Outlook.com email service, they migrated over 150 petabytes of user data in six weeks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2013/05/02/outlook-com-400-million-active-accounts-hotmail-upgrade-complete-and-more-features-on-the-way.aspx|title=Outlook.com: 400 million active accounts, Hotmail upgrade complete and more features on the way}}</ref> |
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* Email: In May 2013, ] announces that as part of their migration of Hotmail accounts to the new Outlook.com email service, they migrated over 150 petabytes of user data in six weeks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2013/05/02/outlook-com-400-million-active-accounts-hotmail-upgrade-complete-and-more-features-on-the-way.aspx|title=Outlook.com: 400 million active accounts, Hotmail upgrade complete and more features on the way}}</ref> |
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* Photos: {{As of|2013|01}}, ] users had uploaded over 240 billion photos,<ref>{{cite web|last=Miller|first=Rich|title=Facebook Builds Exabyte Data Centers for Cold Storage|url=http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/01/18/facebook-builds-new-data-centers-for-cold-storage/ |publisher=Datacenterknowledge.com|accessdate=21 May 2014}}</ref> with 350 million new photos every day. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translated to a total of 960 billion images and an estimated 357 petabytes of storage.<ref>{{cite web|last=Leung|first=Leo|title=How much data does x store?|url=http://techexpectations.org/2014/05/17/hovsdaDSqwrmwqwfEqw-much-data-does-x-store/|publisher=Techexpectations.org|accessdate=21 May 2014}}{{deadlink|date=November 2018}}</ref> |
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* Photos: {{As of|2013|01}}, ] users had uploaded over 240 billion photos,<ref>{{cite web|last=Miller|first=Rich|title=Facebook Builds Exabyte Data Centers for Cold Storage|url=http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/01/18/facebook-builds-new-data-centers-for-cold-storage/ |publisher=Datacenterknowledge.com|accessdate=21 May 2014}}</ref> with 350 million new photos every day. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translated to a total of 960 billion images and an estimated 357 petabytes of storage.<ref>{{cite web|last=Leung|first=Leo|title=How much data does x store?|url=http://techexpectations.org/2014/05/17/hovsdaDSqwrmwqwfEqw-much-data-does-x-store/|publisher=Techexpectations.org|accessdate=21 May 2014}}{{deadlink|date=November 2018}}</ref> |
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* Music: One petabyte of average ]-encoded songs (for mobile, roughly one megabyte per minute), would require 2000 years to play.<ref name="computerweekly.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/What-does-a-petabyte-look-like|title=What does a petabyte look like?|accessdate=19 February 2018}}</ref> |
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* Music: One petabyte of average ]-encoded songs (for mobile, roughly one megabyte per minute), would require 2000 years to play.<ref name="computerweekly.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/What-does-a-petabyte-look-like|title=What does a petabyte look like?|accessdate=19 February 2018}}</ref> |
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* Games: {{as of|2009}}, '']'' uses 1.3 petabytes of storage to maintain its game.<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922235430/http://www.industrygamers.com/news/blizzard-drops-world-of-warcraft-stat-bomb | archivedate=22 September 2009| url=http://www.industrygamers.com/news/blizzard-drops-world-of-warcraft-stat-bomb/ |title=Blizzard Drops World of Warcraft Stat Bomb |publisher=Industrygamers.com |date=18 September 2009 |first=David|last=Radd|accessdate=18 September 2009}}</ref> |
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* ], a digital distribution service, delivers over 16 petabytes of content to American users weekly.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Steam ISP stats lay Australia's dire internet connectivity bare|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/steam-isp-stats-lay-australias-dire-internet-connectivity-bare/|magazine=PC Gamer}}</ref> |
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* ], a digital distribution service, delivers over 16 petabytes of content to American users weekly.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Steam ISP stats lay Australia's dire internet connectivity bare|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/steam-isp-stats-lay-australias-dire-internet-connectivity-bare/|magazine=PC Gamer}}</ref> |
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* Cloud backup: Multiple backup vendors, including ], ], and ] claim to store 90 or more petabytes of user backup data.<ref>{{cite web|last=Leung|first=Leo|title=How much data does x store?|url=http://techexpectations.org/2014/05/17/how-much-data-does-x-store/|publisher=Techexpectations.org|accessdate=29 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522002448/http://techexpectations.org/2014/05/17/how-much-data-does-x-store/#|archive-date=22 May 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> |
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* Physics: The ] in the ] produce about 15 petabytes of data per year, which are distributed over the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1027032 |title=3 October 2008 - CERN: Let the number-crunching begin: the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid celebrates first data |publisher=Interactions.org |accessdate=16 August 2009}}</ref> In July 2012 it was revealed that ] amassed about 200 petabytes of data from the more than 800 trillion collisions looking for the ].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-big-data-software-problem-behind-cerns-higgs-boson-hunt/?cs=50736|title=Big Data Software Problem Behind CERN's Higgs Boson Hunt}}</ref> The Large Hadron Collider is also able to produce 1 petabyte of data per second, but most of it is filtered out.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.cern/about/updates/2017/07/cern-data-centre-passes-200-petabyte-milestone|title=CERN Data Centre passes the 200-petabyte milestone|publisher=CERN|accessdate=6 July 2017}}</ref> |
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* Physics: The ] in the ] produce about 15 petabytes of data per year, which are distributed over the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1027032 |title=3 October 2008 - CERN: Let the number-crunching begin: the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid celebrates first data |publisher=Interactions.org |accessdate=16 August 2009}}</ref> In July 2012 it was revealed that ] amassed about 200 petabytes of data from the more than 800 trillion collisions looking for the ].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-big-data-software-problem-behind-cerns-higgs-boson-hunt/?cs=50736|title=Big Data Software Problem Behind CERN's Higgs Boson Hunt}}</ref> The Large Hadron Collider is also able to produce 1 petabyte of data per second, but most of it is filtered out.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.cern/about/updates/2017/07/cern-data-centre-passes-200-petabyte-milestone|title=CERN Data Centre passes the 200-petabyte milestone|publisher=CERN|accessdate=6 July 2017}}</ref> |
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* Neurology: It is estimated that the ]'s ability to store memories is equivalent to about 2.5 petabytes of binary data.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Reber |first=Paul |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-memory-capacity |title=What Is the Memory Capacity of the Human Brain? |magazine=Scientific American |date=2 April 2013 |accessdate=14 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2012/04/north_korea_s_2_mb_of_knowledge_taunt_how_many_megabytes_does_the_human_brain_hold_.html|title=Your Brain's Technical Specs|last=Wickman|first=Forrest|date=2012-04-24|work=Slate|access-date=2017-03-31|language=en-US|issn=1091-2339}}</ref> |
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* Neurology: It is estimated that the ]'s ability to store memories is equivalent to about 2.5 petabytes of binary data.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Reber |first=Paul |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-memory-capacity |title=What Is the Memory Capacity of the Human Brain? |magazine=Scientific American |date=2 April 2013 |accessdate=14 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2012/04/north_korea_s_2_mb_of_knowledge_taunt_how_many_megabytes_does_the_human_brain_hold_.html|title=Your Brain's Technical Specs|last=Wickman|first=Forrest|date=2012-04-24|work=Slate|access-date=2017-03-31|language=en-US|issn=1091-2339}}</ref> |
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* Climate science: The ] (DKRZ) has a storage capacity of 60 petabytes of climate data.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/meet-the-worlds-most-powerful-weather-supercomputer.php|title=Meet the World's Most Powerful Weather Supercomputer|accessdate=19 February 2018}}</ref> |
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* Climate science: The ] (DKRZ) has a storage capacity of 60 petabytes of climate data.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/meet-the-worlds-most-powerful-weather-supercomputer.php|title=Meet the World's Most Powerful Weather Supercomputer|accessdate=19 February 2018}}</ref> |
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* Folding@home (Scientific Data): Folding@home has generated 0.5 petabytes of simulated data.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://folding.stanford.edu/home/donate/ |title=Folding@home|date=2011-02-02 |accessdate=2011-02-02}}</ref> |
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* Google Photos uploaded an estimated 13.7 PB of photos in the first year of its existence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/google-photos-one-year-200-million.html|title=Google Photos: One year, 200 million users, and a whole lot of selfies|website=Official Google Blog|language=en-US|access-date=2016-05-29}}</ref> |
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*Astronomy: When the first ] image was recorded by the Event Horizon Team, the data they collected was 4 PB.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/black-hole |title=For the first time, you can see what a black hole looks like |last1=Clery |first1=Daniel |date=April 10, 2019 |website=Science |publisher=AAAS |accessdate=April 10, 2019 }}</ref> |
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*Sports: If you lined up a petabyte of data on 1gb flash drives that were an inch long and stretched them end to end, they would stretch over 92 football fields.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/petabyte-how-much-information-could-it-actually-hold|title=Petabyte - How Much Information Could it Actually Hold?|last=Spurlock|first=Richard|website=info.cobaltiron.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-04}}</ref> |
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*Sports: If you lined up a petabyte of data on 1gb flash drives that were an inch long and stretched them end to end, they would stretch over 92 football fields.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/petabyte-how-much-information-could-it-actually-hold|title=Petabyte - How Much Information Could it Actually Hold?|last=Spurlock|first=Richard|website=info.cobaltiron.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-04}}</ref> |
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*Entertainment: Based off 1 ] being 1024GB and the average 4k movie being 100GB, 1 petabyte of storage could hold 11,000 4k movies and take 2.5 years of nonstop viewing to watch.<ref name=":0" /> |
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*Entertainment: Based off 1 ] being 1024GB and the average 4k movie being 100GB, 1 petabyte of storage could hold 11,000 4k movies and take 2.5 years of nonstop viewing to watch.<ref name=":0" /> |
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*Sports: If you stacked a petabyte's worth of 1TB ssd drives on top of each other in ], they would reach from the court floor to the base of the score board over two and a half times.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/petabyte-how-much-information-could-it-actually-hold|title=Petabyte - How much Information Could it Actually hold?|last=Spurlock|first=Richard|date=10/31/2019|website=Cobalt Iron|url-status=live|access-date=11/04/2019}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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==References== |
Examples of the use of the petabyte to describe data sizes in different fields are: