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by TheOtherHobbes 3731 days ago
The problem is that new content is being generated at an increasing rate.

There was an estimate in 2011 that total storage of everything everywhere by everyone was more than 250 Exabytes, increasing by around 25% annually.

There's going to be a lot of duplication in that, and a lot of it won't be public. So as a ballpark guess a complete collection of public-only sources - including all available commercial content of all possible kinds ever recorded, academic papers, Wikis, news sites, forums, and such - is going to need 25-50 Exabytes, with maybe 25% compound of new content every year.

So you could get the entire Internet delivered by truck or two, but you probably wouldn't have anywhere to put it.