05-07-2008, 03:50 PM | #1 | |
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a yotta bytes
There was a posting on / . regarding the amount of disk storage being shipped by the HDD manufacturers.
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I always wondered where they come up with these, and now I find there apparently is an "approved" list of geek-math-terms to describe them. Here is the list (from / .) : yocto- y 10^-24 zepto- z 10^-21 atto- a 10^-18 femto- f 10^-15 pico- p 10^-12 nano- n 10^-9 micro- m 10^-6 milli- m 10^-3 centi- c 10^-2 deci- d 10^-1 (none) -- -- deka- D 10^1 hecto- H 10^2 kilo- K 10^3 mega- M 10^6 giga- G 10^9 tera- T 10^12 peta- P 10^15 exa- E 10^18 zetta- Z 10^21 yotta- Y 10^24 Link to the article listing these: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/...499008,00.html |
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05-07-2008, 03:58 PM | #2 |
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lol. old but appropriate.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...79032362244465 yotta.... yatta... get it? but in seriousness, thats pretty fucking insane. |
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05-07-2008, 05:32 PM | #3 |
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That'll make the MPAA and RIAA shit themselves for sure.
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05-08-2008, 10:42 PM | #4 | |
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BETTAH! |
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05-09-2008, 09:25 AM | #5 |
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Is gonna be hell maintaining (read: defragmenting) those things.
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05-09-2008, 12:13 PM | #6 |
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so whats 10^27 called? i want one of THOSE drives.
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05-10-2008, 12:07 AM | #7 | |
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05-10-2008, 12:44 AM | #8 |
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Lulz, and the games at that time would take up about 50 TB...
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05-10-2008, 07:50 PM | #9 |
Meng, if they don't involve me putting on a suit and running around like a tard, I won't install anything over 30TB.
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05-10-2008, 08:00 PM | #10 | |
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of course, thats not 10^27, but it reminded me of that. |
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05-10-2008, 08:02 PM | #11 | |
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05-14-2008, 07:10 PM | #12 |
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From Wikipedia:
1 googol =10^100 =10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 1 googolplex = 10^googol = 10^(10^100)
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05-21-2008, 05:53 PM | #13 | |
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05-22-2008, 02:29 PM | #14 |
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We could host everything everyone has on their HD on 1 single drive of that capacity, that'd be pretty useless but cool.
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05-22-2008, 07:07 PM | #15 | |
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the old ones sound cool, but the new ones are crap (after pico/tera). |
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05-22-2008, 11:34 PM | #16 | |
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05-23-2008, 04:24 PM | #17 | |
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I bet they'll call it Windows Yotta |
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05-28-2008, 03:44 AM | #18 |
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Did none of you realize they are talking about the total capacity of all shipped drives in one year from the entire industry, not a single drive?
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05-28-2008, 04:11 AM | #19 | |
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05-28-2008, 05:22 AM | #20 |
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The whole unanimity of it all! I didn't read anything except what was in the thread too.. no clue about the other links.
But in all seriousness, doin some math, by about 2045 we'll have affordable desktop 1YB drives. srs. |
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