This is what some of the world’s largest banks of malware look like stacked as hard drives

TechCrunch compares malware repositories by turning their data volumes into stacked hard drives and landmark heights.

vx-underground’s about 30 TB of malware source code would stack to roughly 2.5 feet in 1-TB drives.

VirusTotal’s 31 PB of samples would reach about 2,645 feet, nearly as tall as the Burj Khalifa.

The comparison highlights how massive malware archives have become for security research, model training, and trend tracking.