LeClairRyan attorney William W. Belt Jr., writing in the Aug. 18 issue of Westlaw Journal Environmental said the unprecedented amount of data from the Deepwater Horizon disaster will set new records in the amount of legal documents and evidence that will be seen and asked for by attorneys

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He wrote that if a gigabyte of data amounts to roughly a pickup truck full of books, for example, and a terabyte adds up to 1,000 such pickup trucks, the BP/Deepwater Horizon case - given its complexity, seriousness and the proliferation of electronic files involved - could cross the petabyte threshold, Belt says. He wrote, "Imagine a vast expanse, perhaps somewhere in the Mojave Desert, in which a million pickup trucks full of books cover a parking lot that stretches as far as the eye can see in all directions. That would be a petabyte of data."