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Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
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Fri, 12 Nov 1999 02:34:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Mike Stanley writes:
> 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.
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> Yup. We backup approximately 2.5 TB from various servers/systems
> each month to our main backup server.
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 exabyte == 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes) worth of data, though
that's still a bit behind what Joe User is going to have USB'ed to his iWhack.
*smirk*
-Cheese
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| (...) Two words: MP3 Server. I'm on my way over, man. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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