The visualization in storage pods is most helpful. Just put the drives, in their current size in a physical space you can compare to your office.
The skyscraper comparison is fun but misleading. The stack of drives would be very very thin. It would work better if drives were put in one box and that box was compared to a room, house, etc..
There can be other visualizations like electrical power consumption compared to a normal computer. How much time it would take to read/write that data. How many processors are needed to read/write that data in reasonable time, compare their surface area to the our unfolded brain, which is a large cloth napkin.
I think these comparisons would be more useful to people in the field than how many books would be needed to store that much data, the standard pop show example.
The skyscraper comparison is fun but misleading. The stack of drives would be very very thin. It would work better if drives were put in one box and that box was compared to a room, house, etc..
There can be other visualizations like electrical power consumption compared to a normal computer. How much time it would take to read/write that data. How many processors are needed to read/write that data in reasonable time, compare their surface area to the our unfolded brain, which is a large cloth napkin.
I think these comparisons would be more useful to people in the field than how many books would be needed to store that much data, the standard pop show example.