genetics - How many gigabytes of DNA are there on earth?

If you simply take one order of insects, Coleoptera, there are just under 400,000 described species with estimates from 850,000 to 4,000,000 species total in just this order. The number of primates is under 1,000. If your assumption of say 10MB for all other primates would be accurate, just adding in the low end estimate of 850,000 at 10MB per 1000 we are quickly at 8,500GB which seems to be a factorial out of the GB range.

So, we have a broad estimate of non-bacterial of plants, animals etc. at say 8,700,000.

Jason Gans found in a 1 gram of soil survey approximatly 1,000,000 bacterial species.

SO the total accounting for species number is totally impossible to estimate for anything at this time, let alone the genome.

Even for something as "common" as a giraffe, there are up to 9 sub-species with genome differences within each subspecies.

So, once we get them all decribed, we can then work on the genome sequence for each and get you some answers!