been constantly increasing. and. that the basis of the storage capacity of tapes as for disks and the density of transistors on a processor is limited off. and then you get today several manufacturers have proven through lab test tapes could achieve a capacity of fifty terabytes per cartridge just in the cycle the hope that we are therefore at a factor of ten from these directly limits to the so-called this and to. much capacity is still growing. a magnetic tape can now store up to three hundred thirty terabytes the quantity of information generated by the l h c may seem to be enormous but it's just a drop in the ocean of data that we produce on a planetary scale. some two hundred eighty billion emails are sent every twenty four hours google alone receives three point eight million search queries a minute. these. astronomical numbers are so hard to conceive of that the computer