Destiny's Databank Size

[General Jumper One]

Interesting.
So it goes,
Gigabyte
Terabite
Then what?

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[MathiasE]

Considering our own advances in storing data in organic material I'd say that the storage space on Destiny could be close to unlimited.

While the method is still very slow scientist have been able to store data on programmed E. Coli bacteria and estimate that you can store around 900000 gigabytes of data in 1 gram of bacteria.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/300831 for those who are interested in reading more about it.

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7. Exabyte
8. Zettabyte

[garhkal]

What.. no nibbles?

[Crias]

While organic storage does have benefits in how compact it can be it’s also very dangerous to be using an organic computer in space, there are solar winds massive amounts of radiation and not to forget that little incident with the Pulsar? The computers would have been killed long ago. I personally think that the computer storage uses crystals like all their other tech.

[morrismike]

If TB drives are no issues for us then I'm not seeing a limit on ancient storage devices.

[Trinary]

I'm imagining a slice of frozen time from an Universe and fit it into a stasis pod and refreeze it again. A probable of highly advanced man made of crystal alike structure with unlimited size of data storage.

[garhkal]

If TB drives are no issues for us then I'm not seeing a limit on ancient storage devices.

Yea.. i can see us at having 20000+ terabite drives in say a hundred years.

[Deckker]

What if the Data is not "stored" on destiny, but distributed across Galaxies in Stargates, Seedships and other things floating in space.

Storing information in a single location is not safe, fire/damage/ theft all lead to data lost. I would imagine that planet specific information remains at each gate, and is feed via Subspace back to Destiny. IT would not need to know a planet 100 galaxies back, it would not be relevant.

However, the gates ahead would pass information to the seed ship and to destiny for future supplies. That would remove a significant amount of actual data storage requirements.

Now if the Gates have a massive hardrive, we could distrube store the information. Destiny and the seedship would add more gates down to allow for more data to be stored in a moving "cloud" of information around destiny. With Gates, Ships coordinating, to keep data always ready and ahead.

Remember we can hop from gate to gate...why not data?

[Steelbox]

Considering our own advances in storing data in organic material I'd say that the storage space on Destiny could be close to unlimited.

While the method is still very slow scientist have been able to store data on programmed E. Coli bacteria and estimate that you can store around 900000 gigabytes of data in 1 gram of bacteria.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/300831 for those who are interested in reading more about it.

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2: Kilobyte
3: Megabyte
4: Gigabyte
5: Terabyte
6: Petabyte
7: Exabyte
8: Zettabyte

Made a few more.

9: Yottabyte
10: Idiotabyte
11: Stupidbyte
12: Moronbyte
13: Lamebyte
14: Fornicatorbyte
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and the insults go on and on, as goes Destiny's data bank size.

[sman789]

Not that this would make a huge difference, as we have already mentioned that Rush's 900 exobytes was nothing to Destiny, but remember all the artificial simulations that people have been in at various points? Not only does Destiny seem to store picture-perfect information about itself (including Tau'ri equipment brought with the expedition) with enough detail to simulate its function, but it also simulated many members of the crew, including those who the people experiencing the simulation were not directly interacting with (such as Scott, who was killed in the observation deck in Young's simulation). This means that, unless it simply extracts the data from the crew's minds as needed for the simulation in more or less real time (which I doubt considering the amount of processing which would need to be done on it), it would have to store most if not all of the crew's minds in its database too. That's like 80 people + the nine LAs, from which enough information must be extracted to be able to create reliable simulations of their personalities. As we are the sum of our experiences (memories), according to some psychologists and phillosophers at least, it would need to take quite a large percentage to be a good simulation. Notice Eli's gestures and voice and stuff when he was trying to stop Rush self-destructing Destiny - it was pretty convincing.

[Giantevilhead]

At the current rate of growth we will have 1 yottabyte drives in 2070.
If we could somehow encode 1 bit in each hydrogen atom, 1 yottabytes of data would weight 13 grams.

Well, that's the kind of storage space you need for 3D interactive porn.

[morrismike]

Yea.. i can see us at having 20000+ terabite drives in say a hundred years.

more like 5 years

[garhkal]

I doubt 5.. 20 i could see.

[morrismike]

I doubt 5.. 20 i could see.

We could probably build one tomorrow if you were so inclined. It might be the size of a car and contain 100,000 thumbnail chips (my phone has a teeny tiny 16 GB chip).