144 Petabyte – on a Memory Card

The latest version of CompactFlash promises extreme storage capacity of 144 petabyte.

The organization CompactFlash Association is launching version 5.0 of the standard for memory cards. The main feature is a maximum storage capacity of 144 petabyte, or 144 000 TB.

To put the 144 petabyte capacity in perspective, 1 petabyte is equal to 1,024 terabytes of data. And 1 terabyte is equal to 1024 gigabytes of data, a measurement we’re more used to seeing everyday. Assuming most of us currently have 2 terabytes of data (which may be overdoing it for the average computer user), that comes out to more than 70,000 libraries that can be stored one CF card.