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FAST FACTS

The Library of Congress Storage media are getting more sophisticated every
in Washington, D.C., is the few years. Each piece of new technology stores many
biggest library in the world, times more data than the previous one. They are also
containing 35 million books. All becoming faster and, because they have no moving
the text in those books could be parts, smaller and more durable.
stored on nine 4-TB hard disks.
36-TB

= Zip disk CD DVD Dual-layer 2-TB Flash
3.5" 100 MB 700 MB 4.7 GB Blu-ray disk drive
floppy disk 50 GB 2 TB
Library of Congress 1.44 MB

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