20 Things You Didn't Know About Netflix

20. Its Library Takes Up Over One Petabyte Of Space

It's not something we tend to think about, but with thousands and thousands of different movies and TV shows, the total combined size of the content on Netflix is clearly very large, and while we don't have a figure that tells us exactly how large, there are plenty of educated guesses floating around online. And all of them are nuts.

During an article analysing how the process of streaming content to your device actually works, TechHive mentioned that Netflix's library accounts for "over a petabyte" of memory. For context, a single petabyte equals 1,000 terabytes, while a single terabyte equals 1,000 gigabytes.

It's an amount of data that is almost too gargantuan to comprehend - high-end smartphones normally max out at around 512GB, which isn't even one terabyte.