(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Alright, First off I have been reading about storage capacity. I just got a little curious and though I would check out what is the highest capacity of memory. As of today, The highest capacity is a (1) Yottabye. Here is the definition of a yottabyte:

"A yottabyte (derived from the SI prefix yotta-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one septillion (one long scale quadrillion or 1024) bytes. It is commonly abbreviated YB. As of 2008, no computer has yet achieved one yottabyte of storage. In fact, the combined space of all the computer hard drives in the world does not amount to even one zettabyte. According to one study, all the world's computers stored approximately 160 exabytes in 2006, with nearly 1 zettabyte projected by 2010.[1] When used with byte multiples, the SI prefix may indicate a power of either 1,000 or 1,024, so the exact number may be either:

* 1 septillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — 10008, or 1024, or
* 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes — 10248, or 280.[citation needed]

The term "yobibyte", using a binary prefix, has been proposed as an unambiguous reference to the latter value.

128-bit processors could become prevalent when 16 exbibytes of addressable memory is no longer enough (128-bit processors would allow for 274,877,906,944 yottabytes of memory).

One study has predicted that in ten years the volume of online data accessible either on the Internet or on corporate networks is expected to reach a yottabyte.[2] The study refers to a yottabyte as 1 trillion terabytes. Source: Wikipedia"

I also heard it would take approximately 86 trillion years to download a full yottabyte. Even on a T-1 connection. But that is also including the modern technology we have now. Maybe in the future we will be able to download a gigabyte like it's a megabyte. If you were to download 1 yottabyte, well you can't even say that is possible right now because the sun is a star and It will die in two billion years..... So yeah. Don't know why there is even a measurement higher than a petabyte. Anyway, what I am trying to say is as the world evolves in technology, when would you estimate that a yottabyte will be used.

A yottabyte would never be used for home computers.. Possibly for corporations to hold data but that size of a harddrive would likely cost trillions of dollars.

the sun will die in 5 billion years...

but that would be cool to have as a flash drive :p

I don't know what's so special about a T-1 connection. T-1 connections are slow and only good of you need guaranteed bandwidth. Plus that number is wrong; it would take about 190 billion years, not 86 trillion. With my cable connection it would only take me 19 billion years to download one yottabyte.

noes it wont

Have fun :p:p:p

Ummm, Well anyway even so what is the major difference between 19 billion and 86 trillion, I know there is a huge difference. I'm just saying no body will be alive then so it doesn't really matter, unless they come out with a new way to download content.



A T-1 connection is slow if you have a lot of people feeding off the same connection. Like my school has a T-1 connection, and the internet is very slow. There isn't really nothing special about it, but not the normal person would have it. Seeing that on some websites I was looking at, the price is about $300 monthly for a T-1.

Yeah, but a T-1 line is only 1.5 Mbps. My cable connection is 15 Mbps, 10x faster. My upload speed is 2 Mbps which is also faster than a T-1.

well i got a really comp to 100mbps here

That's not even a sentence, so idk wtf you were trying to say. But my guess is that you were saying your connection is 100Mbps. That's actually only your network's connection speed, not your internet's connection speed. Don't confuse the two.