Google Calculator
Ever wondered how long it would take to upload some data?
Well of course it depends on at least a couple of things – namely how much data and how fast the connection is.
Obviously you know how much data needs to be moved, and the speed for your broadband connection can be found by running any of the on-line speed tests – try here for one.
I’m actually looking at the feasibility of an on-line backup for someone and their upload speed is a mere 256KB/s, the first backup will be almost 40GB so I wondered how long that would take. There are a few web sites that will do the calculation for you but Google has an easy way – just enter:
40 GB / 256 KB / sec
in the search field and viola, Google responds with:
(40 GB) / (256 (KB / sec)) = 15.1703704 days
A bit much really!
Looks like I’ll be doing the original backup the hard way with a PC on site and then perhaps trying to use an incremental backup on a daily basis. I’ll just have to keep an eye on how much data changes each day.
There are loads of other conversions:
60 UK gallons in litres
gives 60 Imperial gallons = 272.765513 litres
and
60F in C
gives 60 degrees Fahrenheit = 15.5555556 degrees Celsius
Magic!!!!!
For more info on Google’s Calculator visit http://www.google.com/help/calculator.html
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