University of California Berkeley researchers report that the amount of new information stored on paper, film, optical and magnetic media has doubled in the last three years to five exabytes — or 5 million terabytes. The researchers, supported by tech giants Microsoft, Intel, HP and EMC, said the amount of new information produced in those forms last year alone was the equivalent of 500,000 libraries, each containing a digital version of the print collections of the Library of Congress.
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Researchers: Digital Data Drives Storage Explosion
Posted by: Jay Lyman October 29, 2003 08:43 AMUniversity of California Berkeley researchers report that the amount of new information stored on paper, film, optical and magnetic media has doubled in the last three years to five exabytes — or 5 million terabytes. The researchers, supported by tech giants Microsoft, Intel, HP and EMC, said the amount of new information produced in those forms last year alone was the equivalent of 500,000 libraries, each containing a digital version of the print collections of the Library of Congress.
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