How much is 217 gigabytes?
It's about 150,000 times as much as a Floppy Disk (3½-in)
The amount of a Floppy Disk (3½-in) is about 0.00137329 gigabytes.
(high density, IBM PC format)
Despite common reference to them as "1.44" megabyte (mB) disks, the actual capacity of the most common model of a 3&-in (8.9 cm) floppy disk is 0.00137329 gigabytes. At the height of their use 1996, there were an estimated five billion disks in use — nearly one for each person on Earth at the time.
It's about one-two-hundred-fifty-thousandth as much as Mozy
The amount of Mozy is about 50,000,000 gigabytes.
(2009 figures) (total file storage)
Mozy, the online data backup service, stores about 50,000,000 gigabytes of data backed up its users. Founded in 2005, Mozy's customer base has grown to 1 million personal and 60,000 business subscribers in just 5 years.
It's about one-three-hundred-fifty-thousandth as much as The Books in the Library of Congress
The amount of The Books in the Library of Congress is about 70,000,000 gigabytes.
(2009 figures) (digitized entire collection)
The total collection of books, photographs, and other media housed by the United States Library of Congress would occupy about 70,000,000 gigabytes if fully digitized. The collection contains a total of 142,544,498 items as of 2009.
It's about 0.0000004 times as much as The Spotify Catalog
The amount of The Spotify Catalog is about 500,000,000 gigabytes.
(2018 figures)
Spotify, the music streaming service that serves over 170 million users per year, hosts a data catalog of about 500,000,000 gigabytes on a Google Cloud Platform solution. In 2017, users listened to Spotify for a total of over 40.3 billion hours.
It's about 0.00000004 times as much as The Internet
The amount of The Internet is about 5,000,000,000 gigabytes.
(2005 figures) (estimated)
Although the Internet is continuously changing, a 2005 estimate by Google CEO Eric Schmidt was that the total amount of data on the Internet would measure about 5 billion gigabytes (gB). An estimated 1 trillion web pages are published on the Internet, excluding photos, videos, and music content.
It's about 95,000,000 times as much as a Page of Text
The amount of a Page of Text is about 0.00000220 gigabytes.
(50 lines, 50 characters per line, ASCII encoding)
A 50-character-per-line, 50-line page of Latin alphabet text requires 0.00000230 gigabytes when digitally represented. The Google Books project, which has produced hundreds of millions of pages of digital text, used a robotic device to digitize over eight million titles at a rate of about 1,000 pages per second.
It's about 2,000,000,000 times as much as a Magnetic Stripe Card
The amount of a Magnetic Stripe Card is about 0.0000001000 gigabytes.
(maximum capacity; per ISO 7811 specification)
The storage capacity of a magnetic stripe on a credit or identification card is about 0.0000001000 gigabytes. According to legend, Forrest Parry, the IBM engineer who developed the first magnetic stripe card in 1960, was able to solve the problem of adhering the strip to the card after his wife suggested using an iron.
It's about 0.000000000005 times as much as All Spoken Words in Human History (recorded)
The amount of All Spoken Words in Human History (recorded) is about 46,000,000,000,000 gigabytes.
(2003 figures) (assumes 16 Khz, 16-bit mono recording)
Criticizing a 2002 estimate of 5,400,000,000 gigabytes, linguist and University of Pennsylvania professor Mark Liberman asserted that it would actually require 46,000,000,000,000 gigabytes to house a recording of all speech in human history, even at a relatively low level of quality. For the purposes of his calculations, Liberman estimated the total duration of such a project to include 416,390,367 years of continuous audio.