How much Data was created at BlogHaus?

Posted on January 12th, 2007 in: Data Storage

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Above: Media and Data was being created at the 24X7 BlogHaus for over 120 hours straight; bloggers, photographers, podcasters, and video bloggers create, publish, share, and store.

I’ve learned a few things about Data Storage by osmosis over the last 3 years as I came from a Data Storage company. I’ve had many an interesting conversations with folks on how much data is being created by individuals using regular consumer tools. The BlogHaus, sponsored by Seagate only accelerated this in this rare event.

It’s only one day after the event ending, so I’m sure more media will be created and put online as well as saved on to personal local drives in laptops, desktops, and external hard drives.

Images
I myself took 248 photos and uploaded to Flickr
-The original size is 3.8 MB
-It’s also saved on my local HD, and will eventually go to my external HD as backup.
-The Large size is 605.04 KB
-The Medium is 169 KB
-Small is 18.21 KB
-Thumbnail is a mere 3.76 KB
=4.5 MB per average photo loaded to flickr
=Note: the data is replicated on my local and then again to my external drive

That’s over 1 gig of data, I created just using pictures. Do note that only about 1/3rd of my photos even make it to flickr. I save them all. I have at least 4 gigs of data from a few days of this event.
A quick search on flickr indicates there are over 660 photos tagged bloghaus.

Video
Even in this video I shot, you can see there are 5 video bloggers and everyone was filming and creating data. That’s quite a few MBs too. I also blogged, alot. even more data. This podtech video is 60mb, without a doubt the raw versions are backup and replicated on various servers.

Uber producers
Thomas Hawk was on a goal to shoot over 1000 photos, he shoots in raw and is creating tons of data with every click. I sent him an email, I want to know how much he created.

Update Jan 18th: I’ve since learned that Gear Live has created and uploaded quite a bit of content from the Bloghaus, we’re finding out exactly how much it was, but it was at least 100 videos.

That’s just 3 creators of 600 attendees
That’s just two of us, granted we’re both big creators, but there’s quite a great deal of data from the other 600+ creators that attended. There were so many video bloggers, cameras, bloggers.

Data on Local, Uploaded to Cloud, Archived, and in External Drives
Since I share much of my data online, it gets replicated on the production and archive servers. Later I’ll move my data from my local drive to my backup external drive at home. With a rough estimate, I probably created 16 gigs of data when you add up all the web servers, replication, and external drives. If you multiply that 16 GB times the number of guests (600+) that’s a few Terabytes

The Future
This is just the start, with more mobile devices having features that let you capture images and video, more data will be created. The DSLR industry has really taken hold, amateur photography is increasing at a phenomenal rate. Video bloggers are creating more and more content (have you seen how many shows are on YouTube now?)

How much Data did you create at CES or Bloghaus?
In the comments, tell us how many pictures you took, blog posts, or size of video.

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  • http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com Josh Bancroft

    Amazing. Wish I could have come. :-)

    You should put up a wiki page somewhere, and have everyone that was at Bloghaus update it, and add themselves to the tally. Then you’d have real data on the amount of, um, data. ;-)

  • http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/ jeremiah_owyang

    How come you didn’t come? I thought you were on the guest list.

    Oh man, I really wanted to meet you.

  • http://www.onebyonemedia.com/wordpress Jim Turner

    I’m just glad that the feed reader I had set up for thes CES blogs is done smoking! This added at least 30 minutes more to my day when reading all of the feeds I had stored.

  • http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/ jeremiah_owyang

    no kidding, I could barely keep up with all the news.

  • http://www.geektieguy.com GeekTieGuy

    I uploaded about 220 3 megapixel photos to zooomr while I was at bloghaus.

  • http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/ jeremiah_owyang

    Cool, I saw them. nice. Be sure to tag ‘em up too.

  • http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com Josh Bancroft

    I didn’t make it due to some work stuff going on, which hopefully I’ll be able to talk about soon, if/when everything is finalized.

    I was on the guest list, because I was hoping to come, but my CES trip didn’t work out.

    Next year, for sure! And I’m sure we’ll bump into each other some time between now and then. :-)

  • http://www.technologyevangelist.com Ed Kohler

    I shot around 375 pictures at CES, and our team shot hours and hours of video in HD. In fact, we stopped by the Bloghaus one night so we could upload a gig of finished content to our CDN since bandwidth in the form of a taxi ride from the Hilton and the Bloghaus upstream combined was much faster than our upload speeds.