| IP Traffic Term | Equivalent | How much is that? |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Petabyte | 1,000 Terabytes or 250,000 DVDs | 100 Petabytes The amount of data produced in a single minute by the new particle collider at CERN. 400 Terabytes A digital library of all books ever written in any language |
| 1 Exabyte | 1,000 Petabytes or 250 million DVDs | 5 Exabytes A transcript of all words ever spoken 100 Exabytes A video recording of the all the meetings that took place last year across the world 150 Exabytes The amount of data that has traversed the Internet since its creation 175 Exabytes The amount of data that will cross the Internet in 2010 alone |
| 1 Zettabyte | 1,000 Exabytes or 250 billion DVDs | 66 Zettabytes The amount of visual information conveyed from the eyes to the brain of the entire human race in a single year |
| 1 Yottabyte | 1,000 Zettabytes or 250 trillion DVDs | 20 Yottabytes A holographic snapshot of the earth’s surface |