Infographic: How Big is a Gig?

SOURCE: Signiant

If you need to send a file to someone, size is usually a big concern. Will it take forever to send or slow down my company’s network? Signiant specializes in developing software for fast and efficient large file transfers. And, after over a decade of moving extremely large files for their customers — from the high resolution footage of feature filmmakers to the huge data sets of life science researchers — they’ve found that it’s often difficult to relate to the full scale of data sizes being transferred over the Internet. Signiant made this infographic to help put a single gigabyte of data in perspective, illustrate some of the largest file types they see, and show some of the various options for moving large files around.