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

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

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  Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
 
(...) Whattya mean, 10 years. Terabytes is now. Just not on your desktop. Steve (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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