1 Terabyte Hard Drive?

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Originally posted by MrGaribaldi


Why not a RAID 5 array of 1tb drives? Now that'd be something to show off :D

Probably an intrical part of the home PC system within 3 years my friend....

3 years ago, I distinctly remember oohing and aaahing with friends as we beheld a store PC with.... drum roll.....

A giant 8 GB HDD!!!

Jeez I had to put one of those in my rig as an emergency recently..... what a speed killer... :(
 
1GB huge hard disks doesn't seem that long ago!!!
I recently sold a P133 with a 800mb hard disk and a 1GB disk!!!

Originally posted by PHATMAN5050
i wonder if anyone has a yottabyte composed of just floppy disks...

that would be 69444444444444444.444444444444444 floppy disks...WOW

I can just imagine...

During windows 2020 installation from fd:
"Please insert disk 69444444444444444.444444444444444"
"The disk in drive A: is not formatted, Would you like to format it now?"

ARRRRRGGGGHHH
:mad: :dead:
 
http://www.marx-brothers.org/
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They were like the three stodges but a little more high brow (i.e. slightly more intelligent humor rather than just pure slapstick).
 
Originally posted by Didou
A yottabyte is a ridiculous name chosen by well, hum, the people who choose these names because they thought we would never need to use that name anyways.;)

Well, wanna guess who first said Terabyte?

Data from Star Trek ;)

We don't go any higher than yottabyte because, simply, the sun will burn out before we gain the technology of a fraction of a yottabyte.
 
Nah don't be daft.

The sun is 5 billion years old and still has about another 5 billions years to go.

I would not be surprised if we have machines with a yottabyte of RAM, etc but at least the time we are all dying like 2050, 2060, etc...
 
Well. Don't forget that the prefix mega does not remain true for machines as it does with our base 10 system. Sure, the proper term is supposed to be mibi but as it stands, the standard is mega for base 2 in machines stands for 1024, not 1000, and when you are using that from the lowest point (a kilobyte) and it is going in multiples, a terrabyte would be a lot more then 1000 * 1000 * 1000 and so forth and so on.

1024 bytes = kilobyte
1024 kilobytes = megabyte
1024 megabytes = gigabyte
1024 gigabytes = terrabyte

and etc
 
Originally posted by Soul Harvester
1024 bytes = kilobyte
1024 kilobytes = megabyte
1024 megabytes = gigabyte
1024 gigabytes = terrabyte

and etc

Well, that depends a bit..

Whilst what you have printed is correct for software, the harddrive manufacturers decided to go with the "regular" definition for mega, giga and terra bytes... So a harddrive with with 1 tb space according to specs would only have:
1.000.000.000.000 bytes instead of
1.099.511.627.776 bytes....

.02$
 
Yeh - it is a little dissapointing when you get a new 30gig hard drive and it shows up as 28.63 or thereabouts.
 
Yeah SN, it is pretty annoying, but actually what's happening is that your hard drive really can't use the whole thing without two partitions - it happens to almost all drives with FAT32, and you can lose up to 3GB from it! :(
I've had 10GB hd's show up as 9.54, 20 GB's show up as 18.24...
Madness.
 
Re: Re: Re: 1 Terabyte Hard Drive?

Originally posted by SNGX1275
I found something slightly different: From: http://www.computerhope.com/help/hdd.htm
Bit Value of 0 or 1
Nibble 4 bits
Byte 8 bits
KB(Kilobit) 1,024 bytes
MB(Megabyte) 1,024 Kilobytes or 1,048,576 Bytes
GB(Gigabyte) 1,024 Megabytes or 1,073,741, 824 Bytes
TB(Terabyte) One Trillion bytes or 1,099,511,627,776
PB (Petabyte) 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
EB(Exabyte) One quintillion bytes or about 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes in decimal.
ZB (Zetabyte) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
YB (Yottabyte) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
seems the pb and eb are switched

Still have yet to find whats bigger than yotta though.

This page is cool although it doesn't have storage sizes. http://www.iridesnow.com/personal/prime/

After an extensive google search - I have concluded that there is no current name for things larger than a yottabyte as of now. So I think if anyone had the need to say something larger than 1000 yottabytes one would simply say 45,000 yottabytes or something. You would just have to tack multiples of 1,000 on it.


Agh! I wanted the honor to point it out to that computer brainiac.... Phantasm.

In transfer and speeds, Phantasm would be correct (in that post).

PS: Lol, drew888.... what gives starting up this long topic again lol?
 
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soul harvester said:
"Well. Don't forget that the prefix mega does not remain true for machines as it does with our base 10 system. Sure, the proper term is supposed to be mibi but as it stands, the standard is mega for base 2 in machines stands for 1024, not 1000, and when you are using that from the lowest point (a kilobyte) and it is going in multiples, a terrabyte would be a lot more then 1000 * 1000 * 1000 and so forth and so on. "

This is NOT entirely true... the prefix "mega" is used in engineering which uses a base 3 number system (i.e. 1 megawatt = 1x10^3 or 1000 watts) in any other application this would be kilo... but in engineering notation the prefix is changed every 3 decimal places... don't argue with me, I'm an electrical engineer...
 
I found some meanings/explanations of the prefixes:

http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_7_27_98.html

Those 'marx bros' prefixes were created by hacker Morgan Burke in 1993... he proposed, to a general approval on Usenet, the following additional prefixes: groucho (10^-30), harpo (10^-27), harpi (10^27), grouchi (10^30). This would leave the prefixes zeppo-, gummo-, and chico- available for future expansion. Sadly, there is little immediate prospect that Mr. Burke's eminently sensible proposal will be ratified.

So they aren't official... anything over 10^24 hasn't been given a prefix yet.

Cept for that one site saying Nona...
 
i like phantasm66 idea beyond a Yottabyte. to me it seems like some one with the money and resours to store all the information one could find. i believe there is no limite. man tries to make all he can imagine, and if there is no more to imagine then it truely is the end.
 
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Originally posted by jdman687
... the prefix "mega" is used in engineering which uses a base 3 number system (i.e. 1 megawatt = 1x10^3 or 1000 watts) in any other application this would be kilo... but in engineering notation the prefix is changed every 3 decimal places... don't argue with me, I'm an electrical engineer...
1. Thats *base 10*, NOT *base 3*.
2. 1 Megawatt = 1x10^3 or 1000 kWatts.

It appears you got confused. If you don't agree, then post a link that verifies your original statement.
 
http://www.bandwidth.com/tools/speedTest

To download 1 TB of data at my connection speed (cable 300kbps)it would take approx., 335 days, 15 hrs, 38 mins, 11 secs.

Whereas with a OC-192 connection(10Gbps), it would take approx., 14 mins, 39 secs

Anyone know how fast it would take a OC-256 connection?
 
And your hard drive would probably pack in before you finished :=).
- refers to modem post
 
Yes of course you need a terabyte, to house all those illegal DVD's you have on your machine. Ah, but the cost of the TB drive will support starving hollywood artists anyways.

Atomic Punk
 
what comes after a YottaByte?

I'm no expert on hard drive capacity or the prefexses we use to name them. My only encounter with any of this is work related. I've been working on the pie project for quite some years now. Many of you have said that a YottaByte is an insanily large number. well in my work we are forced to brake the pie calculations down because their is no hard drive that can hold all the numbers that pie has been traced back to. we veiw pie in chunks of about 100 gigaBytes at a time. The hunt for the repeating decimal number in pie as im sure you know, has been going on seemingly forever. It has been assest that we should save or retrieve all the data ever used or collected on pie. This project was headed up by a friend of mine. He told me that all the reaserch ever conducted they had calculated would egual about 1 YottaByte of hard drive space. When i questioned him as to what the heck a YottaByte was i got a response similer to the posts i read here. However, he told me that after a YottaByte comes an UltraByte. I was confused because im more used to the metric prefix system. I'm not sure where his source comes from, but in my line of work you hardly ever just make somthing up like that. So im sure its based largely in truth.
 
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