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A mountain of DVDs

Posted on 6 March 2008 by John

The March 6 Nature podcast has a story about the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is expected to gather 15 petabytes (15,000,000 gigabytes) of data. One of the people interviewed said that 15 petabytes of data would require a stack of DVDs the height of Mount Blanc.

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