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It's about as much as Pandora
The amount of Pandora is about 260,000,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. Pandora Radio) (2011 figures)
Pandora, the online radio and song recommendation service, stores 260,000,000 megabytes of music. Its music recommendation service categorizes each song in its library using 400 attributes and 2,000 attribute combinations.
It's about one-and-three-fifths times as much as The IRS Compliance Database
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The amount of The IRS Compliance Database is about 160,000,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. Internal Revenue Service) (2006 figures)
The United States Internal Revenue Service's compliance database holds more than 160,000,000 megabytes of data on tax returns and other records. Each year of tax records occupies between 18,000,000 megabytes.
It's about one-and-three-fourths times as much as Despicable Me
The amount of Despicable Me is about 149,000,000 megabytes.
(2010) (Production data)
The 2010 digitally-animated film Despicable Me was developed by Illumination Entertainment and Mac Guff Ligne and used 149,000,000 megabytes. The film had a running time of 95 minutes.
It's about half as much as a Walmart's Mainframe
The amount of a Walmart's Mainframe is about 480,000,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. Wal-Mart, a.k.a. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc) (2004 figures)
As of 2004, Walmart had accumulated nearly 460 terabytes of data about its customers, inventory, products, and sales. According to some estimates, the total area of all Walmart stores in the United States measures 64,000,000 sq. m.
It's about two times as much as The Hubble Telescope
The amount of The Hubble Telescope is about 130,000,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. Hubble Space Telescope, a.k.a. HST) (2008 figures)
Between its launch in 1990 and 2008, the Hubble Space Telescope gathered 130,000,000 megabytes of images and other data about astronomical phenomena. Last upgraded during a service mission in 1999, the onboard computer of the Hubble Telescope has just 2 megabytes (mB) of operating memory (RAM) — less than most smartphones.
It's about half as much as YouTube's video database
The amount of YouTube's video database is about 560,000,000 megabytes.
(2008 figures) (video data only)
YouTube's collection of user-generated and commercially-produced videos measures about 560,000,000 megabytes in total data volume. Every minute, an average of 35 hours of new video content is uploaded to YouTube.
It's about two-fifths as much as The Ancestry.com's Census Records
The amount of The Ancestry.com's Census Records is about 600,000,000 megabytes.
(2006 figures) (1790 to 1930 records only)
Updated in 2006 through a one-of-a-kind project, the genealogical research site Ancestry.com added 540 million names from records in the 1790 to 1930 US Census, capturing a total of 600,000,000 megabytes of data. According to company estimates, the project took 6.6 million hours (750 person-years) to complete.
It's about three times as much as The LHC Data Generated per Second
The amount of The LHC Data Generated per Second is about 100,000,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. Large Hadron Collider) (2008 figures)
Capturing millions of measurements per second on millions of subatomic particles, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) facility in Geneva generates 100,000,000 megabytes of data every second. Data collection arrays are placed throughout the LHC's 8.6 km (5.3 mi) circular track.
It's about three-tenths as much as a Avatar
The amount of a Avatar is about 1,000,000,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. James Cameron's Avatar, a.k.a. Avatar: An IMAX 3D experience) (production rendering data)
Using a combination of breakthrough techniques that ultimately made it the most expensive movie ever produced, the film Avatar required 1,000,000,000 megabytes of storage space for its computer rendering. According to some sources, each frame of the 166-minute movie took an average of 47 person-hours to complete.
It's about three-tenths as much as Facebook's Photo Storage
The amount of Facebook's Photo Storage is about 1,000,000,000 megabytes.
(2008 figures) (total storage)
Facebook, the popular social networking site, hosts about 1,000,000,000 megabytes of photos uploaded by its users as of 2008. Facebook users upload more than 2,000,000 megabytes of new photos to this collection every day.
It's about three-tenths as much as The Google database
The amount of The Google database is about 890,000,000 megabytes.
(2006 figures) (web crawler data; compressed)
As of 2006, the Google search engine database contained 890,000,000 megabytes of compressed data about the web pages it had indexed while crawling the web. Each day, Google processes over one billion search requests.
It's about three-and-a-half times as much as The Google Earth database
The amount of The Google Earth database is about 73,900,000 megabytes.
(2006 figures) (raw imagery and indexes storage)
As of 2006, Google was storing 73,900,000 megabytes of raw image and index data for its satellite photo and virtual globe application, Google Earth. The application offers high resolution satellite imagery of 60% of the populated areas of the world, according to 2010 estimates.
It's about one-fifth as much as World of Warcraft
The amount of World of Warcraft is about 1,300,000,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. WoW) (2009 figures) (total storage for Blizzard Entertainment)
World of Warcraft, the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), uses 1,400,000,000 megabytes of data for its operations. The game's development required about 5 years and included the enhancement of a proprietary 3D graphics engine developed for the prequel of the game.
It's about six times as much as The Amazon.com's databases
The amount of The Amazon.com's databases is about 44,370,900 megabytes.
(largest databases only; 2005 figures)
Amazon.com maintains information on the millions of items sold on it's e-Commerce website and the websites of its affiliate companies, as well as information on customer orders and browsing history, and excerpts from nearly a quarter-billion books in databases totaling an estimated 45,435,800 megabytes of data. Amazon.com receives over 615 million visits to its US website each year.
It's about one-tenth as much as an Imgur's Monthly Bandwidth
The amount of an Imgur's Monthly Bandwidth is about 2,260,000,000 megabytes.
(Jan-Feb, 2012 figures)
Imgur, the free online image hosting service, used a total of 2,270,000,000 megabytes in bandwidth between January and February, 2012. The site has served up over 15 billion images in that time.
 
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