The size of the foundation's database.

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The size of the foundation's database.

Dr Ryze 18 Feb 2021 00:12

I want to know how many articles a "Completed SCP Foundation" would have. I know that there will be no real "end" to the Foundation as a collaborative writing project, but how many articles on average would the in-universe Foundation have, and what would the approximate file size be? Also, according to other articles, the Foundation have their own OS (SCPOS), so are the articles and videos in some sort of proprietary format, or are they just fancy looking PDFs? Also, just a guess, but wouldn't the Foundation have some sort of heavily encrypted intranet system between each server?

sorry about all the questions, just wanted some ballpark estimate from different people

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Re: The size of the foundation's database.

KaneryU 22 Feb 2021 18:02

I would say each file would range from 100kb to 1petabyte. Most SCP's are just small, to-the-point text articles. There are some that are special, such as SCP-001, with the memotic killing agent that has to be at least a petabyte of data to pull that off? IDK how u call it, and SCP's with a lot of logs.

Let's assume that every slot is full, because empty SCP slots just say [access denied], so they could still exist. I will be generous and say 4500, SCP's are in the kilobyte - megabyte range. I'll say all of them are 0.5 megabytes, that is 2250000000 bytes! (or about 2250 megabytes.)

500 SCP's are special, I'd say 400 are large SCP's so I'd say each of them is about 10-30 gigs, let's just say 20 gigs. 90 are larger, Let's say each one is 60 gigs. 10 are huge 1 terabyte - 1000 terabytes (1 petabyte) let's say these are 50 terabytes each. The large group SCP's total to… 517.4 terabytes. Keep in mind, these are just rough estimates, and I didn't include all the research papers, security files, personnel trackers, encryption keys, PGP keys, and Tales, just those files should be much much larger than the SCP files them selfs.

Add small group SCP's and Large group SCP's for a grand total of 517.4225… (the 0.0225 terabytes are the Small group SCP's, about 2250 megabytes. Large group SCP's total to 517.4 Terabytes)

Please check my math, I am no math wizard!

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Last edited on 22 Feb 2021 18:06 by KaneryU Show more

Re: The size of the foundation's database.

KaneryU 23 Feb 2021 14:39

I just realized my calculations are missing SCP's 5000-5999 oops…

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