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Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
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Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:00:30 GMT
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 13:27:35 GMT, jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper Janssen)
wrote:

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 variations.. and in 10 years,
there'll be an extra level at the Terabytes as well.

Whattya mean, 10 years.  Terabytes is now.  Just not on your desktop.

Steve



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  Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
 
(...) 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)
 
(...) 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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  Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
 
(...) 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)

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