How many DVDs do I need to back this up?

[Billaguana]

I was wondering approx how many DVDs I would need to back up my info, or can one of you guys maybe find me a external to back it up to?

[ahhell]

More than a few but less than a bunch.

[Detection]

47,487 DVDs from a quick and probably wrong calculation

[TheLegendOfMart]

42

[cybertimber2008]

47,487 DVDs from a quick and probably wrong calculation

I got 44,006,737.

222,083,807,415,440,349 bytes = 206,831,663 gigabytes

There are 4.7 gigabytes per single-layer disk, so 206831663/4.7 = 44,006,737 discs.

Additionally, it would take 24,333,137 dual-layer DVDs

[Detection]

I got 44,006,737.

222,083,807,415,440,349 bytes = 206,831,663 gigabytes

There are 4.7 gigabytes per single-layer disk, so 206831663/4.7 = 44,006,737 discs.

Additionally, it would take 24,333,137 dual-layer DVDs

I used 4350MB per DVD

4.7GB didn't work out to be 4700MB when I was trying to squeeze files onto a DVD a while back, I remembered seeing available space around the 4350MB mark

Might be remembering it wrong, but I think we used more or less the same calculations to work it out :)

I did: 1024 x 1024 x 197 / 4350

[cacoe]

...Is this a joke?

[-Alex-]

Looks like someone's trying to steal a company's data...

[Detection]

I got 44,006,737.

222,083,807,415,440,349 bytes = 206,831,663 gigabytes

There are 4.7 gigabytes per single-layer disk, so 206831663/4.7 = 44,006,737 discs.

Additionally, it would take 24,333,137 dual-layer DVDs

Just did it with an online converter and got 43,950,951

I had a brain fart and missed out the whole TB part :p

[Tomoko]

That image looks totally legit. :shiftyninja:

[-Alex-]

I was apparently bored :p

Number of bytes per media:

Data = 222,083,807,415,440,349

Single layer DVD+R = 4,700,372,992

Single-layer DVD-R = 4,707,319,808

Dual-layer DVD-R = 8,543,666,176

Dual-layer DVD+R = 8,547,991,552

Single-layer Blu-ray = 25,025,314,816

Dual-layer Blu-ray = 50,050,629,632

XL3-layer Blu-ray = 100,103,356,416

XL4-layer Blu-ray = 128,001,769,472

Number of media needed:

Single-layer DVD+R = 47,248,125

Single-layer DVD-R = 47,178,398

Dual-layer DVD-R = 25,993,971

Dual-layer DVD+R = 25,980,818

Single-layer Blu-ray = 8,874,367

Dual-layer Blu-ray = 4,437,184

XL3-layer Blu-ray = 2,218,546

XL4-layer Blu-ray = 1,735,006

At a cost of $89.95 for 1x XL3 Blu-ray disc, this equates to a backup cost of $199,558,213, or $0.96/GB.

At a cost of $0.30 for 1x DVD-R disc, this equates to a backup cost of $14,153,519, or $0.07/GB

[xendrome]

Nice shop....

1:Windows system

2: Driver letter "C:"

Even if it was NTFS, the limit of NTFS on a single Volume is 256TB

[neo1911]

Google, is that you sneaking on Neowin forums?

[xendrome]

Google, is that you sneaking on Neowin forums?

No because Google only processes about 50 Petabytes of data per day...

[.Neo]

I was wondering approx how many DVDs I would need to back up my info, or can one of you guys maybe find me a external to back it up to?

Lacking attention? ;)

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

Nice shop....

1:Windows system

2: Driver letter "C:"

Even if it was NTFS, the limit of NTFS on a single Volume is 256TB

It's not a shop, I was there. Image was taken from BartPE while Bila and myself were doing a Customers Data Backup before Reload.

It's just a screwup on Bart's and Windoes identifying of information and I'm shure some directories linking to other directories ect ect ect. The actual size was a couple GB when the linking directories were cleaned and unlinked.

But it's not a shop, Bila and myself just found this funny, I thought he was going to put in jokes and funny, but he didn't.

*edit if you want I can upload the entire image instead if just the relevant info

[Barney T. Administrators]

Topic moved here.

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

I was wondering approx how many DVDs I would need to back up my info.

0 as the data in question does not exist ;)

[Billaguana]

Topic moved here.

0 as the data in question does not exist ;)

We were wondering why it wouldn't back up to our external ("Bertha") and kept saying it was running out of space.