How Much Data?

Byte – one grain of rice

Kilobyte – one cup of rice

Megabyte – 8 bags of rice

Gigabyte – 3 container trucks

Terabyte – 2 container ships

Petabyte – covers Manhattan

Exabyte – covers the UK (3 times)

Zettabyte – fills the Pacific Ocean

(h/t to David Wellman at Myriad Genetics)