Friday Just for Fun: What did 240TB used to look like?
Check this out c/o Noise Addicts circa 2008.
“Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to advancing age, financial issues, health issues and a struggling record industry Paul has been forced to sell his collection of:
- 3 Million Records
- 300,000 Compact Discs
- More Than 6 Million Song Titles
Back in February, Paul put the entire collection up on ebay. The bidding got up to a whopping $3,002,150 (albeit much less than the collection is actually worth.)”
Let’s say the average size of an MP3 audio file is around 5MB. Paul’s collection would have amassed a whopping 30TB of music. Considering the collection is not compressed, or considered lossless audio, which can average 400MB per album, or, say 40MB per song, Paul would have had over 240TB of music.
Now that’s a collection!
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…and when Paul was asked, “What kind of phonograph to you prefer?” He replied, “What’s a Phonograph?”
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