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How much is 72,200 gigabytes?

It's about as much as The Google Earth database
The amount of The Google Earth database is about 72,200 gigabytes.
(2006 figures) (raw imagery and indexes storage)
As of 2006, Google was storing 72,200 gigabytes 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 seven-tenths as much as The LHC Data Generated per Second
The amount of The LHC Data Generated per Second is about 100,000 gigabytes.
(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 gigabytes of data every second. Data collection arrays are placed throughout the LHC's 8.6 km (5.3 mi) circular track.
It's about three-fifths as much as The Hubble Telescope
The amount of The Hubble Telescope is about 130,000 gigabytes.
(a.k.a. Hubble Space Telescope, a.k.a. HST) (2008 figures)
Between its launch in 1990 and 2008, the Hubble Space Telescope gathered 120,000 gigabytes 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 0.002 gigabytes of operating memory (RAM) — less than most smartphones.
It's about half as much as Despicable Me
The amount of Despicable Me is about 146,000 gigabytes.
(2010) (Production data)
The 2010 digitally-animated film Despicable Me was developed by Illumination Entertainment and Mac Guff Ligne and used 145,000 gigabytes. The film had a running time of 95 minutes.
It's about half as much as The IRS Compliance Database
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The amount of The IRS Compliance Database is about 160,000 gigabytes.
(a.k.a. Internal Revenue Service) (2006 figures)
The United States Internal Revenue Service's compliance database holds more than 150,000 gigabytes of data on tax returns and other records. Each year of tax records occupies between 18,000 gigabytes.
It's about three-tenths as much as Pandora
The amount of Pandora is about 250,000 gigabytes.
(a.k.a. Pandora Radio) (2011 figures)
Pandora, the online radio and song recommendation service, stores 260,000 gigabytes of music. Its music recommendation service categorizes each song in its library using 400 attributes and 2,000 attribute combinations.
It's about one-tenth as much as a Walmart's Mainframe
The amount of a Walmart's Mainframe is about 470,000 gigabytes.
(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-tenth as much as YouTube's video database
The amount of YouTube's video database is about 540,000 gigabytes.
(2008 figures) (video data only)
YouTube's collection of user-generated and commercially-produced videos measures about 540,000 gigabytes in total data volume. Every minute, an average of 35 hours of new video content is uploaded to YouTube.
It's about one-tenth as much as The Ancestry.com's Census Records
The amount of The Ancestry.com's Census Records is about 600,000 gigabytes.
(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 gigabytes of data. According to company estimates, the project took 6.6 million hours (750 person-years) to complete.
It's about one-tenth as much as The Google database
The amount of The Google database is about 870,000 gigabytes.
(2006 figures) (web crawler data; compressed)
As of 2006, the Google search engine database contained 870,000 gigabytes 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 one-fifteenth as much as a Avatar
The amount of a Avatar is about 1,000,000 gigabytes.
(a.k.a. James Cameron's Avatar, a.k.a. Avatar: An IMAX 3D experience) (production rendering data)
Using a combination of breakthrough techniques that ultimately made it the most expensive movie ever produced, the film Avatar required 1,000,000 gigabytes of storage space for its computer rendering. According to some sources, each frame of the 166-minute movie took an average of 47 person-hours to complete.
It's about one-fifteenth as much as Facebook's Photo Storage
The amount of Facebook's Photo Storage is about 1,000,000 gigabytes.
(2008 figures) (total storage)
Facebook, the popular social networking site, hosts about 1,000,000 gigabytes of photos uploaded by its users as of 2008. Facebook users upload more than 2,000 gigabytes of new photos to this collection every day.
It's about one-twentieth as much as World of Warcraft
The amount of World of Warcraft is about 1,300,000 gigabytes.
(a.k.a. WoW) (2009 figures) (total storage for Blizzard Entertainment)
World of Warcraft, the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), uses 1,400,000 gigabytes of data for its operations. The game's development required about 5 years and included the enhancement of a proprietary 3D graphics engine developed for the prequel of the game.
It's about one-thirtieth as much as an Imgur's Monthly Bandwidth
The amount of an Imgur's Monthly Bandwidth is about 2,210,000 gigabytes.
(Jan-Feb, 2012 figures)
Imgur, the free online image hosting service, used a total of 2,210,000 gigabytes 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 2,600,000 gigabytes.
According to Northwestern University psychology professor Paul Reber, the capacity of the human brain is a theoretical 2,600,000 gigabytes. Each lobe of the brain consists of folded neural tissue with a total area, if unfolded, of about 0.24 sq. m.
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