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Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:54:20 GMT
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 13:27:35 GMT, jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper Janssen)
> wrote:
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> > 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.
Yup. We backup approximately 2.5 TB from various servers/systems
each month to our main backup server.
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| (...) 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)
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