7000 floppy disks

Nimbus Hosting, a web hosting company, have found out that although we are storing colossal amounts of data, thousands or even millions of times more than ten or twenty years ago, but the cost of storing it has dropped enormously.

For example, to store amount of data equaling one episode of Game of Thrones, it would have cost you £27,200. The same amount of data can be stored for free on services like DropBox or Google Drive.

To store one episode of Game of Thrones, we would need:

• 6,666,667 punch cards
• 348 magnetic tapes
• 7273 8″ floppy disks
• 556 3.5″ floppy disks
• 0.4 of a DDS-1 Tape
• 5.71 mini discs

You can see the shift, the evolution of data storage, visualised in this infographic:
https://www.nimbushosting.co.uk/evolution-data-storage/