From under a pound to 300,000 pounds, depending on your media
- On paper: 300,000 pounds (30 million sheets)
- On 3.5″ floppies: 30,000 pounds (830,000 disks)
- On CDs: 175 pounds (1,250 discs)
- On two 2006-era disk drives: 5.6 pounds
- On one FreeAgent desktop drive: 2.8 pounds
- On two FreeAgent Go drives: 0.8 pounds
In the video, I was off by a factor of ten on the height of the one terabyte stack of paper: it would be about 2 1/2 miles tall.
You might wonder what a terabyte will weigh in ten years. Answer: it won’t matter. You’ll want to know what a petabyte weighs by then.
I’m kinda betting I’ll be more interested in an exabyte by then, seeing as how I’m already trying to describe a petabyte to my 11 year old.