|
Ten Terabytes Transferred
Posted by Michael on 4 December 2004, 04:19 GMT
December 4, 2004 is a date that will be remembered around the world forever. Parades will be held in the streets of New York, Paris, and Pago Pago. Future children will celebrate each year with their parents, holding wild calculator festivals. Why? Because this evening ticalc.org passed further into the realm of undeniable awesomeness with a major bandwidth milestone.
During the period from April 14, 1997 to December 4, 2004, ticalc.org transferred 10 TB of data. That's ten terabytes (equivalent to 10,240 GB). We are currently averaging 6.12 GB of data transferred per day, or 42.82 GB per week. You can find all of these statistics and others on our Web Server Statistics page.
A few other interesting pieces of trivia:
- Hypothetically, it would take a TI-83 Plus approximately 291 years to transfer 10 TB through the link port. If you used TI Connect, it'd probably take a millennium and then crash halfway through.
- The average video rental store holds about 8 TB worth of video data.
- It is estimated that the books of the Library of Congress would amount to 20 TB if digitized. Thus, ticalc.org has transferred "half a Library of Congress".
We wish to thank all of the people who have visited ticalc.org and contributed to this milestone.
|
|
|
Reply to this article
|
|
The comments below are written by ticalc.org visitors. Their views are not necessarily those of ticalc.org, and ticalc.org takes no responsibility for their content.
|
|
|
Usage Anomalies
|
nicklaszlo 
(Web Page)
|
|
Why is november such a popular time to visit ticalc.org?
There is only one BeOS user who has been here recently.
Googlebot used .5% of the bandwidth this week, but I imagine that varies highly from week to week.
|
|
Reply to this comment
|
4 December 2004, 14:56 GMT
|
|
|
Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
|
|
mindstorm23
|
|
Parade??? Uh oh...
|
|
Reply to this comment
|
4 December 2004, 16:45 GMT
|
|
|
Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
|
|
Coolv
|
|
I think tha a goal should be to cut the time in half (3.5 instead of 7 years) to reach 20 TB.
|
|
Reply to this comment
|
4 December 2004, 19:25 GMT
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
|
aml1358
(Web Page)
|
|
good idea... at the rate that new users are being added and more calcs are being bought, there would be more file transfers. if you think about it, all of the students who are suddenly required to use a calculator start to use it, but once they have one they won't get rid of it for a long time, allowing them to use it again and again, and at the same time there are more new calc owners all of the time, and then there are the people that are learning about ticalc.org, and they will add more file transfers to the list, and then the file transfer rate will continue to accelerate, so ticalc.org wont have to wait another 7 years or so for 20 TB. they might only have to wait 2 to 4 years. hopefully they will get it before i get out of high school (im in 7th grade) : ) all hail ticalc.org!!!
|
|
Reply to this comment
|
4 December 2004, 20:23 GMT
|
|
|
Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
|
|
Travis Evans
|
|
Does downloading entire copies of the mailing list archives that used to be up count toward the amount of data transfered mentioned in the article? ... ;-)
|
|
Reply to this comment
|
4 December 2004, 23:20 GMT
|
|
1 2 3 4 5 6
You can change the number of comments per page in Account Preferences.
|
