Bits to Yottabytes - HOW BIG IS BIG DATA ... and everything in between...

1 bit to 1 Yotta



BIT (b)
0 or 1; On or Off Switches
BYTE (B)
8 bits = 1 Character
KILOBYTE (KB) = 1,000 Bytes
1 KB = Small paragraph;
2 KB = Typewritten page;
100 KB=Low resolution picture
MEGABYTE = 1,000 Kilobytes
1 MB=Short Novel;
2 MB= High Res. Picture
5 MB= All works of Shakespeare;
10 MB=Digital X-Ray;
500 MB=CD-ROM;
100 MB=Two (2) Encyclopedia Volumes;
GIGABYTE = 1,000 Megabytes
1 GB= 7 Mins of HD Video;
20 GB = Audio Set of Beethoven;
4.7 GB=DVD-R;
100 GB=Library floor of academic journals
TERABYTE = 1,000 Gigabytes
1 TB = 500 Trees made into paper and printed;
10 TB=Entire Collection of U.S. Library of Congress
PETABYTE = 1,000 Terabytes
1 PB = 20 Million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with text;
1.5 PB = All 10 Billion photos on Facebook;
20 PB = Daily amount of info processed by Google
50 PB = Entire written works of mankind - all languages from beginning of written history
EXABYTE = 1,000 Petabytes
1 Exabyte=Entire Netflix catalog X 3;
1.5 Exabytes = Each and every word ever spoken by mankind
ZETTABYTE = 1,000 Exabytes
250 Billion DVDs
YOTTABYTE = 1,000 Zetabytes
1 ZB = Size of entire WWW; 11 Trillion years to download 1 YB via Broadband, high-speed Internet


Source: The History of the Hard Drive, Rebels Bit – Berkeley School of Information
https://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/number-prefixes.html