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How much is 7,000,000 megabytes?

It's about as much as a Gap, Inc. Customer Database
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The amount of a Gap, Inc. Customer Database is about 7,000,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. The GAP Companies, a.k.a. Gap) (2012 figures)
The GAP Inc., the corporate parent of GAP store, Old Navy, and Banana Republic, has accumulated over 7,000,000 megabytes of data on almost a billion customers. The GAP, Inc remains the largest apparel retailer in the United States and was the largest in the world from the mid-1990s until about 2008.
It's about one-and-seven-tenths times as much as Watson
The amount of Watson is about 4,200,000 megabytes.
(data store only)
Watson, the IBM supercomputer famous for competing against humans on the televised trivia game show Jeopardy!, utilizes 4,200,000 megabytes of variously-structured data to formulate answers. While "thinking", Watson processes about 510,000 megabytes of data per second.
It's about one-fifth 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 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-fifteenth 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 one-twentieth 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 one-twentieth 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 one-twenty-fifth 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-thirty-fifth 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 45 times as much as an iPod
The amount of an iPod is about 164,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. Apple iPod) (2010 figures; for iPod classic, sixth generation)
A sixth-generation, iPod classic MP3 player offers a storage capacity of 164,000 megabytes. Data is stored in the unit's hard drive, a 5,400 RPM SATA drive, which measures about 30 sq. cm (5 sq. in)
It's about one-sixty-fifth 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 one-seventy-fifth 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 one-one-hundredth 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 one-one-hundred-fiftieth 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 150 times as much as Wikipedia
The amount of Wikipedia is about 54,000 megabytes.
(2009 figures) (all languages)
As of 2009, Wikipedia held 54,000 megabytes of publicly written and edited encyclopedia articles on 14.5 million subjects as well as associated commentary and discussion. Wikipedia is among the ten most popular websites on the Internet and the only non-profit entity in that group.
 
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