One of the early promises of computer revolution was the universal access to knowledge and culture. Out of curiosity I've just checked how many hours of video would fit on an average HDD. Assuming average HDD size of 11.6TB (as reported by Segate) and an aggressive, but watchable compression (1GB = 3h of video) we would get a total of 34800 hours of video. Apparently this is around (maybe even slightly above) the total runtime of the whole Netflix's library. My conclusion is that it should be now possible to buy Netflix on a drive.

meanwhile for production they're writing it at multiple GB per minute 🙂 but i agree! that would be so cool. I love having all of North America on Open Street Maps and the top million wikipedia pages and those only take like 34gb and 60gb each