Sho Fukamachi Online

From the tracker stats of a fairly well-known anime fansubber:

Totals (154 torrents) 58.46GB
seeders: 3936
leechers: 4314
total transferred: 1.41PB
total finished: 3136136
currect speed: 3.10GB/s

1.4 PETABYTES?!

UPDATE: just found another with over 3 petabytes. The tracker in question has done 23.8PB this year.

Now I guess the numbers aren’t really surprising when you think it through. I downloaded over 1.2 TB just myself last year, although quite a lot less this year. It would only take a couple tens of thousands people like me to add up to that much. But still, when you multiply it out, the numbers just blow me away. Almost 24 PETABYTES, for a single purpose, non-profit, amateur web site – one of HUNDREDS of such trackers. BitTorrent is fucking amazing.

UPDATE 2: 24 Petabytes is over 1,000,000 times bigger than Max Breaker’s hard disk.

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