The Evolution of storage from kilobyte to yottabyte #storage #aitechnology #technology #tech #ai

n the year 1956, the cutting-edge IBM 350 could store about 3.5 megabytes of data, or one photo, from your iPhone. But today, you can fit about 200,000 photos on a terabyte the size of your thumbnail. Now multiply that by 1,000 to get a petabyte, which takes up about one slot on a server rack. Get yourself a thousand of these, and now you have one exabyte, about the size of a small data center. A thousand of those, and now we're talking about zettabytes. All human activity generates about one of these every three days. Multiply that by a thousand to get a yottabyte, which is big enough to store all the information ever produced by humans since the dawn of man.