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How much is 77,500,000,000,000 octets?

It's about eighteen times as much as Watson
The amount of Watson is about 4,400,000,000,000 octets.
(data store only)
Watson, the IBM supercomputer famous for competing against humans on the televised trivia game show Jeopardy!, utilizes 4,400,000,000,000 octets of variously-structured data to formulate answers. While "thinking", Watson processes about 540,000,000,000 octets of data per second.
It's about one-thirtieth as much as an Imgur's Monthly Bandwidth
The amount of an Imgur's Monthly Bandwidth is about 2,370,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000 octets.
(Jan-Feb, 2012 figures)
Imgur, the free online image hosting service, used a total of 2,380,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000 octets in bandwidth between January and February, 2012. The site has served up over 15 billion images in that time.
It's about one-thirty-fifth as much as a Human Brain
The amount of a Human Brain is about 2,800,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000 octets.
According to Northwestern University psychology professor Paul Reber, the capacity of the human brain is a theoretical 2,800,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000 octets. Each lobe of the brain consists of folded neural tissue with a total area, if unfolded, of about 0.24 sq. m.
It's about one-thirty-fifth as much as The US Census Bureau
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The amount of The US Census Bureau is about 2,800,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000 octets.
(a.k.a. United States Census Bureau, a.k.a. Bureau of the Census) (2010 figures) (total active data)
The United States Census Bureau administers 2,800,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000 octets of demographic and population data gathered through the decennial census and other surveys. The Census Bureau makes the results of each census public 72 years after they are gathered.
It's about one-forty-fifth as much as Netflix's catalog
The amount of Netflix's catalog is about 3,530,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000 octets.
(May, 2013 figures)
The uncompressed source copies of all the movies available for viewing on Netflix total 3,540,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000 octets. According to estimates, videos streamed from Netflix account for about 29% of all Internet traffic, as of 2013.
It's about one-one-hundredth as much as The Letters Delivered by the US Postal Service in 2010
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The amount of The Letters Delivered by the US Postal Service in 2010 is about 5,000,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000 octets.
(2010 figures)
All letters delivered by the United States Postal Service in 2010 will equate to 6,000,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000 octets of data if stored digitally. In delivering the mail, the Postal Service fleet travels a total of 1.25 billion miles annually.
It's about 450 times as much as an iPod
The amount of an iPod is about 172,000,000,000 octets.
(a.k.a. Apple iPod) (2010 figures; for iPod classic, sixth generation)
A sixth-generation, iPod classic MP3 player offers a storage capacity of 172,000,000,000 octets. 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-one-thousandth as much as Mozy
The amount of Mozy is about 50,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000 octets.
(2009 figures) (total file storage)
Mozy, the online data backup service, stores about 60,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000 octets of data backed up its users. Founded in 2005, Mozy's customer base has grown to 1 million personal and 60,000 business subscribers in just 5 years.
It's about one-one-thousandth as much as The Books in the Library of Congress
The amount of The Books in the Library of Congress is about 70,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000 octets.
(2009 figures) (digitized entire collection)
The total collection of books, photographs, and other media housed by the United States Library of Congress would occupy about 80,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000 octets if fully digitized. The collection contains a total of 142,544,498 items as of 2009.
It's about 1,500 times as much as Wikipedia
The amount of Wikipedia is about 57,000,000,000 octets.
(2009 figures) (all languages)
As of 2009, Wikipedia held 57,000,000,000 octets 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.
It's about 1,500 times as much as a Blu-ray Disc
The amount of a Blu-ray Disc is about 53,000,000,000 octets.
(a.k.a. BD) (dual-layer; Blu-ray disc)
A typical Blu-ray disc will hold 54,000,000,000 octets of data. The increase in capacity versus a standard DVD is possible because of the smaller wavelength of blue light — 405 nanometers instead of 650 nanometers for the red laser light used in a DVD.
It's about one-ten-thousandth as much as The Spotify Catalog
The amount of The Spotify Catalog is about 600,000,000,000,000,000.00000000000000000000 octets.
(2018 figures)
Spotify, the music streaming service that serves over 170 million users per year, hosts a data catalog of about 600,000,000,000,000,000.00000000000000000000 octets on a Google Cloud Platform solution. In 2017, users listened to Spotify for a total of over 40.3 billion hours.
It's about 15,000 times as much as a DVD
The amount of a DVD is about 5,000,000,000 octets.
(a.k.a. digital video disc) (single-side, single-layer; DVD-5 specification)
A typical capacity digital video disc will hold 5,000,000,000 octets of data. Such disks are 1.2 mm (0.047 in) thick.
It's about 15,000 times as much as an HDTV Television Show (30 Minutes)
The amount of an HDTV Television Show (30 Minutes) is about 4,530,000,000 octets.
(a.k.a. High Definition television, a.k.a. HD) (digital signal, QAM-256; 30 minutes)
Broadcast cable HDTV signals contain about 2,520,000 octets of data per second, or 4,530,000,000 octets in a thirty-minute television show. The first High Definition television broadcast was news footage from John Glenn's 1998 mission on the space shuttle Discovery.
It's about one-one-hundred-thousandth as much as The Internet
The amount of The Internet is about 5,000,000,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000000 octets.
(2005 figures) (estimated)
Although the Internet is continuously changing, a 2005 estimate by Google CEO Eric Schmidt was that the total amount of data on the Internet would measure about 5,000,000,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000000 octets. An estimated 1 trillion web pages are published on the Internet, excluding photos, videos, and music content.
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