# How many gigs/megs is the SDMB archive?

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**Created:** [September 6, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-gigs-megs-is-the-sdmb-archive/79989 "2001-09-06T04:10:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-gigs-megs-is-the-sdmb-archive/79989/1 "2001-09-06T04:10:10Z")

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Kind of a desert island disk thing. I was thinking it would be nice to have the SDMB archive if I were trapped on a desert island with only a few CD’s and a solar powered laptop.

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**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-gigs-megs-is-the-sdmb-archive/79989/2 "2001-09-06T04:39:51Z")

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OOps, it just hit me. Mods, please do what you must. TYVM

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-gigs-megs-is-the-sdmb-archive/79989/3 "2001-09-06T05:39:43Z")

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To ATMB

bibliophage  
moderator GQ

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**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-gigs-megs-is-the-sdmb-archive/79989/4 "2001-09-06T23:08:57Z")

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Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![jdavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@jdavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdavis)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-gigs-megs-is-the-sdmb-archive/79989/5 "2001-09-06T23:20:33Z")

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The current size of the SDMB database is about 1.75 GBs.

Jerry

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**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-gigs-megs-is-the-sdmb-archive/79989/6 "2001-09-06T23:49:41Z")

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Thanks **jdavis**. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-gigs-megs-is-the-sdmb-archive/79989/7 "2001-09-08T04:26:53Z")

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Of course, if you were going to put the SDMB on CD sets before being stranded, you _could_ compress the archive. 🙂

Note: this isn’t practical for the real SDMB archive, as decompressing the database on-the-fly would be slow and somewhat inefficient.