If your brain was a hard drive, how big would it be?

[jsw]

3.5"

 

[commonpeople]

Storage only needs to increase by a few orders of magnitude before an ipod like device can store stereo visual and audio input over every second of our life. We could have little iSight cameras positioned at the edge of our eyes and just keep them on forever. In some ways this would give us better storage than our brains.

Apple will eventually make cybernetic inter-connects that interface directly into our brains. We'll then have the iBrain in which our memories are assisted by the sum total of all human experience transmitted over the internet.

Hey- I'm making some Kool-Aid here. Anyone want some?

 

[Les Kern]

I feel like I just received a lecture from college. Did you just know that info off of the top of your head?! 😱 🙂

It's a 70's flashback. I can barely tie my shoes now. 🙂
The ODD thing is, is that scientists just don't know how the brain works, so the question put forth here is unanswerable, but I think it's WAY more than mere petabytes. I've even read about those non-scientists that put forth that humans MUST be made by god becasue of the fact we don't know how it works or how could something as complex evolve in the first place. Personally I'll stick with the mystery, and be glad we still have something to discover.

 

[2nyRiggz]

My memory sucks.....4gig nano.


Bless

 

[EricNau]

I have well over 100,000 zetabytes, but my brain spins at 3 rpm. 😱

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

There are days that I think I still have a 512mb HDD for memory. 😱 😀

 

[Felldownthewell]

My brain capacity is huge. It is just very selective. I can remember, for example, the symptoms of the plauge, or what I ate at Lyons (Lions?) resteraunt in Alameda, California when I was 3 (fishsticks), but I can't remember to clean out the litter box, or when my homework is due. Mine is probably 10,000 but corrupted in places.







A lot of places.

 

[mad jew]

So, do identical twins have some sort of RAID setup happening? 😎

 

[Peterkro]

If you install windows in your brain you'll get the dreaded Ebola virus within seconds plus millions of others and installing Norton won't help as it's a terminate and stay resident program.

 

[bartelby]

Mine would be a clunky old 1GB 3.5" drive that's serverely fragmented, 33% bad blocks and needs optamising twice a day.
🙁

 

[iAlan]

3.5"

I hope it is bigger than that....oh, memory, well then - not so bad 😛

 

[bumpy]

Reckon mine's one of those insanely quick SCSI RAID arrays, with a tiny storage capacity and definately not much in the way of reliability.

 

[Lau]

This thread makes my hard drive hurt.

 

[whooleytoo]

I keep spilling alcohol on mine making it lose whole nights. Is there any way I can attach an external and back me up?

 

[mikes63737]

According to scientists the human brain has a storage capacity of roughly 1.4 petabytes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte

 

[dextertangocci]

I've always said I have a photographic memory. I just ran out of film a loooong time ago😀

 

[dextertangocci]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte

1 petabyte = 2 50 bytes; 1024 terabytes, or a million gigabytes

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I don't really know how many bytes my brain can store... but it doesn't matter since I'm pretty sure it would fail the S.M.A.R.T. test, anyway...

 

[dmw007]

It's a 70's flashback. I can barely tie my shoes now. 🙂

I see 😉 😀

So, do identical twins have some sort of RAID setup happening? 😎

Keen observation mad jew. But it is obviously some sort of wireless RAID connection as most twins are not conjoined at the head. Perhaps, Apple should look into this technology... 😉 😀

 

[UKnjb]

THAT many bytes *holding finger and thumb very very closely together* 🙂

 

[bartelby]

I've always said I have a photographic memory. I just ran out of film a loooong time ago😀

Not overexposed and under developed then?

 

[floriflee]

It would be a failing HD. 😀

 

[XNine]

The thought of hard drives as brains has gone back quite some time, probably 1st started with the author William Gibson (Count Zero, Neuromancer, A Scanner Darkly, Mona Lisa Overdrive, etc), but really took off in cyberpunk culture with Ghost in the Shell.

The last Graphic Novel of GITS showed that when viewing a "cyberbrain" memories were listed as thumbnails. Quite ingenious.

If my braind was an HD, it'd probably have about 1,000 Terabytes, plus swappable memory and a large cache.

 

[sushi]

Mine seems to be shrinking as it holds much less than it used to! 😱 😀

 

[Raid]

Heh, my user name stems from my propensity to store and recall large amount of usless information. Some day I will be able to use this power for good, but for now it's mainly used for trivia games (like 'Scene it'). 🙄

Unfortunately it seems that what I'm able to recall and what I want to recall (you know, usefull information) aren't always one in the same. 😱

Mine seems to be shrinking as it holds much less than it used to! 😱 😀

Would those be bad sectors then? 😀