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During Microsoft’s recent adventure to E3, the computer giant posted a new high score for bandwidth used: Over 600 Terabytes. Not 600 Megabytes or 600 Gigabytes, but a whopping 600 Tera (or Trillion) bytes. Microsoft posted these totals based on the seven million game demos, trailers, videos, and other content downloaded from Xbox Live during the week of E3, with the Halo 3 trailer covering over 2 million of those downloads. The sheer numbers alone (which I will remind you again was OVER 600 Terabytes) is such a staggering number, that I couldn’t even begin to think of how to fill 600 Terabytes worth of space. However, here are a few things that could possibly fill 600 Terabytes worth of space: 600,000 copies of Lord of the Rings or 200,000,000 copies of a single average mp3. This means that you would need about 200 iPods to hold that data. I think Apple would love the idea of Microsoft purchasing 200 iPods, but we won’t hold our breath for that day.

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