i was just sitting here at my laptop and started to think and came up with this wierd question. I was wondering if data had any physical weight ?
2007-06-11 12:58:59 · 7 answers · asked by Benjamin M 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Yes it does. There was an article in a recent Discover Magazine. They figured what all the atoms weighed that made up the data on the internet and ended up with about 0.2 millionths of an ounce. Here is the article:
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/how-much-does-the-internet-weigh/?searchterm=weight%20of%20the%20internet
2007-06-11 13:06:31 · answer #1 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. Think of it this way: you have a pile of pebbles sitting on the floor. You can organize them into patterns to encode information (store data), but that doesn't change the weight of the pebbles. Hard disks are similar, only they reorganize tiny regions of metal, and flash drives store data by flipping switches.
2007-06-11 20:08:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
i would say it would weigh something
but it would be simalr to memory in our brain
to make it simple, some small flash drives can store lik 100 GB memory while the big hard drives weighing 10 times more weigs the same
so i would say it doesnt weigh anything or its probably very negligible if we compare it in grams or pounds
2007-06-11 20:09:29 · answer #3 · answered by ronak p 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well the actual hardrive has weight but that stuff can not get heavier from downloading stuff onto it
2007-06-15 17:36:36 · answer #4 · answered by Mike Dimeco 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the components of a hard disk don't vary regardless of how much capacity the disk has, so the answer is 'no'.
2007-06-11 20:04:12 · answer #5 · answered by piquet 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely Not!!!
2007-06-11 20:06:36 · answer #6 · answered by !TON!CK! 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No
2007-06-11 20:03:22 · answer #7 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋