{"id":47,"date":"2006-05-26T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T15:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2009-10-04T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T12:20:39","slug":"all-those-megabytes-add-up-to-a-whole-pile-of-gigabytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/all-those-megabytes-add-up-to-a-whole-pile-of-gigabytes\/","title":{"rendered":"All those megabytes add up to a whole pile of gigabytes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though I don’t consider myself to be a stuff-junkie, I’ve found myself in a situation where I more or less everyday walk around with a bunch of gear. The stuff itself isn’t all that interesting; An external harddrive, a USB2-stick, compact digital camera, iPod & cellphone.<\/p>\n

It struck me that I’m a walking storage facility. Let’s calculate a bit<\/p>\n

iPod: 40gb
\nHD: 80gb
\nUSB2-stick: 2gb
\nDigicam: 500mb
\nCellphone: 80mb (Memory Stick + built in memory)<\/p>\n

Not accounting for the formatting, that’s 122.580GB of storage that I carry around with me more or less all the time. (Which is why sewing a really nifty backpack is quite high on my to-do list.)
\nOk, so the harddrive is usually nine tenths full, as is the iPod. camera, stick & cell are say one third full.<\/p>\n

There’s no point to this post, just that it’s all rather cool. If I could only offset my lazy monkey-brain memory with some on the hd, I’d be set!<\/p>\n

And of course, I took a look at my desk and there’s roughly 300 cds & dvds (50% of each), a harddrive from a bricket iPod, one 4GB and one 40GB hd that I used in my bondage-iMac & a DSLR with 512mb. A lot of space.<\/p>\n

If all the empty and unused space in the world saved data in a forest and there was no-one there to use it, would it make a wooshing<\/em> sound or would only the trees shudder because someone sooner or later would try to print all that data?<\/p>\n

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