I didn't say anything about how much storage I have on my PC? I just said my only point of reference is my personal hard drive scaled up by that number, not how that actually compared to the 150 TB number. I've got 2 TB on my PC, but it's only about a quarter full and a substantial chunk of that is games anyway. All my work and personal projects take up less space due to just being the kind of thing that doesn't need a big file to store

[–] credo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But you did.

You quantified 150TB as a “fucktonne” of important data. I’m assuming metric fucktonne here.
You specified a lot in relation to a few tens of thousand (i.e. at least 30,000) times what you have on your PC
1 fucktonne > a lot

150 TB / 30,000 = 5 GB

There is more involved in the formal proof, but I think that’s a good summary of the facts.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I said it's a fucktonne of data gone if it's data that is relatively small in terms of file size per amount of information stored. If I lose a million words of a novel I'm writing I'm going to call that a huge amount of stuff lost even though the file size is probably somewhere around a megabyte. I did not at any point comment on whether or not 150 TB is a lot of storage for an organisation like a university in and of itself; the bit about my point of reference was specifically to illustrate that I have no idea if it is or not

[–] credo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

*sigh

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I remember when my 386 had a 40mb hard drive.