Today most Americans access the Internet at around 10 megabytes per second.

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Because the data are written and read in megabit chunks, holo-drives can transfer data at 20 megabytes per second, far faster than optical drives.

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But pushing that figure up to a mere 5 watts would allow LCRD technology to have downlink speeds of 1 gigabyte per second and uplink speeds of 100 megabytes per second out to near earth distances.

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LHC's underground ring will spew out petabytes (billions of megabytes) of data per second enough to fill all the hard-drives in the world within days.

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The tape moves at 160 inches per second past the recording heads and absorbs the compressed data at 10 megabytes a second.

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