Terabits per day to Gibibytes per day conversion

What is terabits per day?

To put it into perspective:

1 Terabit = 1 Trillion (1000 Billion) Bits 1 Bit = 1 Binary Digit (either 0 or 1)

So, 1 Terabit per day is equivalent to:

• 1 Trillion bits of data transferred every 24 hours
• 42 Quadrillion bytes of data (since 1 byte = 8 bits)
• Approximately 125 Petabytes of data per year

To give you a better idea, here are some examples of how much data this represents:

• The entire printed collection of the Library of Congress is estimated to be around 10 Terabytes.
• A single day's worth of Facebook data is estimated to be around 500 Terabytes.
• The Internet Archive (a digital library) contains around 25 Petabytes of data.

In the context of modern data centers and high-speed networks, a terabit per day is a relatively modest transfer rate. However, it still represents an enormous amount of data, equivalent to the storage capacity of tens of thousands of DVDs.

What is gibibytes per day?

A nice technical question!

1 Gibibyte (GiB) is equal to 1024^3 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes.

To express this in a more intuitive unit, let's break it down:

• There are approximately 7,000,000,000 seconds in a year.
• Assuming an average data transfer rate of 100 MB/s (this can vary greatly depending on the context), we get:
  • 1 GiB = 1024^3 bytes ≈ 1,073,741,824 bytes
  • 1 year ≈ 7,000,000,000 seconds
  • Transfer rate: 100 MB/s

Now, let's calculate the total data transferred in a year:

• 7,000,000,000 s / (60 s/min) = 116,666,667 min/year
• 116,666,667 min/year × 100 MB/s ≈ 11.66 TBytes/year

Converting this to Gibibytes per year:

• 1 TByte = 1024^4 GiB ≈ 1,099,511,627,776 GiB
• Total data transferred in a year: 11.66 TBytes/year × (1,099,511,627,776 GiB / 1,073,741,824 GiB) ≈ 12.67 TiGiB/year

Finally, to express this as Gibibytes per day:

• Divide the yearly transfer rate by 365 (days in a year):
  • 12.67 TiGiB/year ÷ 365 days/year ≈ 34.65 MiGiB/day