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To: Jet Jaguar

>There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte, a thousand terabytes in a petabyte, a thousand petabytes in an exabyte, a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte, and a thousand zettabytes in a yottabyte. In other words, a yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB. Are you paranoid yet?

Actually that number is wrong, replace “a thousand” in the above with “one thousand twenty four” and the multiplication is correct. (IE computer storage is measured in 2^n units, not 10^n... don’t let them shortchange you.)


9 posted on 11/01/2009 7:21:28 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark
Sorry, no. While RAM storage uses 1024 (2^10) as its multiplier, disk storage has always used 1000 (10^3). So a GB really is 1000MB of disk space, not 1024MB as would be the case for RAM.

To make things even more confusing there are now standard prefixes to make the distinction. See the Wikipedia entry for Yottabyte for details.

28 posted on 11/02/2009 5:43:34 AM PST by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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