Stupid question

A lot...

1,000

Is that a British GB or an American one ?

1,024

John.

I thought it was 1000 but it SHOULD be 1,000,000.

Thanks

Howard

In the real world 'kilo' is 10^3, 'mega' is 10^6 and 'giga' is 10^9.

In the computer world 'kilo' is 2^10, 'mega' is 2^20 and 'giga' is 2^30.

Paul

What comes after 'giga' (10^12 or 2^40)?

Steve M

If I recall correctly, in the world of IT storage the hierarchy goes:

megabyte (MB)
gigabyte (GB) = 1000 x MB
terabyte (TB) = 1000 x GB etc
petabyte
exabyte
zettabyte
yottabyte

The It industry has seen a few deals where customers have purchased a petabyte of storage capacity but I'm not aware of any exabyte + deals. I'm sure they're saving those for the next generation iPOD.

cheers

Ross

PS - I found the following information to give some idea of scale:

terabyte: All the X-rays in a large hospital

petabyte: Half the contents of all U.S. academic research libraries

exabyte: Five exabytes: All the words people have ever spoken

zettabyte: As much information as there are grains of sand on all the world’s beaches

yottabyte: As much information as there are atoms in 7,000 human bodies

I thought they were all extinct.

Got a Hard Drive for sale 20 Petabytes anyone interested

Regards
Clivevonhaveigotabigstoragedeviceinnit

I fear this imitative behaviour is going to produce a serious backlash against Fritz one of these days.

Nime

"Yottabyte"? Are u sure someone isn't pulling your leg?

quote:

I fear this imitative behaviour is going to produce a serious backlash against Fritz one of these days

I think we should have a Berlin Fritz day and everyone on the forum should post in his inimitable fashion as a gesture of his great affection by most of us on this site.

Of course only if Fritzy doesn't think we're infringing on his intellectual copyright.

Regards
Clivevonletsallgettogetherforthegeniusfritzyinnit

Thank You Thank You:

Fritz Von If only ego trips paid the rent, innit

What shall we call it?

Instead of instituting a day for members to post in Fritz's style, why dont we just have Adam randomly shuffle the replies to threads?

So, for instance, I post a reply to a thread about turntables but its appended to a thread about the ban on fox hunting.

Wouldn't the confusion be a fitting tribute to Fritz?

Now ho's being sarcastic, it belittles your own genius my friend ?


Fritz Von Climbing Highland Moontins