Star Trek thought...
In an episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation, Data is put on trial to find out if he's allowed the rights and privilages of being a "person" or not (Joe, you're a robot. I have your recipt, here you go. Now you're free. Hey mommy, I found a robot with his own recipt, now I own him...)
Anyways, Data says that he is capable of "Eight Hundred Quadrillian Bits" of storage, and has a "linear proccessing speed of Sixty Trillian operations per second"
800,000,000,000,000,000 bits = 100,000 Terabytes / 800,000 Terabits (http://www.numion.com)
Mind you, the episode was probably shot in the late 80's or early 90's... so that was probably mind-boggling. Now, mind you, Google claims it has "Tens of Terabytes" that it stores its stuff on, but you'd think that in the next 4 centuries, they'd be able to store more than that on a thumbdrive. ;)
As for the processing, I can't really compare that.. because I'm dumb with this technical stuff... I'm really just a software user...
Anyways, Data says that he is capable of "Eight Hundred Quadrillian Bits" of storage, and has a "linear proccessing speed of Sixty Trillian operations per second"
800,000,000,000,000,000 bits = 100,000 Terabytes / 800,000 Terabits (http://www.numion.com)
Mind you, the episode was probably shot in the late 80's or early 90's... so that was probably mind-boggling. Now, mind you, Google claims it has "Tens of Terabytes" that it stores its stuff on, but you'd think that in the next 4 centuries, they'd be able to store more than that on a thumbdrive. ;)
As for the processing, I can't really compare that.. because I'm dumb with this technical stuff... I'm really just a software user...