 | | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship) —Frank Filz
| | | | (...) Unless it's a hard drive, and then a Kilobyte is 10^3 (and for awhile was even actually measuring the "unformatted" capacity). (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship) —Jasper Janssen
| | | | | (...) Not necessarily. Some harddrives think a kilobyte is 10^3, and a megabyte is 10^6, and a gigabyte is 10^9. Some harddrives think a kilbyte is 2^10, a megabyte is 2^20, and a gigabyte is 10^3 * 2^20. Others think a gigabyte is 2^30. Endless (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship) —Steve Bliss
| | | | | (...) Whattya mean, 10 years. Terabytes is now. Just not on your desktop. Steve (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship) —Mike Stanley
| | | | | | (...) Yup. We backup approximately 2.5 TB from various servers/systems each month to our main backup server. (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship) —Matthew Wilkins
| | | | | | | | (...) Heckfire, we have a drive array that has 2 petabytes of storage capacity on it. We don't actually use that much data, but it's got THE CAPACITY, man! I know the MacOS can address out to 10 exabytes (that's two levels beyond terabytes, 1 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship) —Jeremy Sproat
| | | | | | | | | (...) Two words: MP3 Server. I'm on my way over, man. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship) —Matthew Wilkins
| | | | | | | | | (...) "Did I say 'petabytes', IT Person? No, that array has 2 GIGABYTES capacity, see? Oh, a brand-new 2 gig array takes up two racks, because of the cross- threaded, full-duplex, multi-interfaced aggregate daughterboard, which has to be inverse (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship) —Tom Boucher
| | | | | | | Only 2? I'm working on about 25TB to 30TB under Intel boxes. Pretty Scary. Tom Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote in message news:slrn82mq6n.75t....utk.edu... (...) Janssen) (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship) —Jasper Janssen
| | | | | (...) I mean on your desktop, not in Enterprises. I remember the first time a company produced a single-unit-terabyte sized HD unit. Size of a (large) fridge, ~$200k. Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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