1 Terabyte Hard Drive?

[MrGaribaldi]

WoW!

That's the first thought that sprang to mind after reading the above post!

How many decimals are you up to now? It must be an insane amount...

 

[Per Hansson]

It's pretty cool to think that the Swedish backbone could copy 1000TB in one day 4hours and 20mins...

Yes, it is a 10gbps or "OC-192" network... It's between the universities...

Another quest I give you: what is the "phattest" pipe in the world today currently being used for the "free" internet?

Edit: it's quite cool that it would take 5000years on my 56k connection also

 

[Per Hansson]

Earth Simulator:

MDPS (Mass Data Processing System) was installed as a new data storage system, which renews the archive system. It consists of four file service processors, 250TB disks, and a currently used 1.5 PB cartridge tapes library (CTL). MDPS was adopted aiming to improve manageability for a data transmission performance and access.

http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/Hardware/mdps.html

http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/ESC/index.html

http://www.top500.org/list/2003/11/

 

[muffen]

The real reason that

1024 bytes = 1 Kilobyte.
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte.
1024 Magabytes = 1 Gigabyte.
1024 Gigabytes = 1 terabyte.
1024 Terabyes = 1 pecabyte.
1024 Pecabytes = 1 exabyte.
1024 Exabytes = 1 zettabyte.
1024 Zettabyte = 1 yottabyte.

Is simple 2^x, binary. 2^10 = 1024

1024 bytes = 1 Kilobyte or 2^10 bytes
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte or 2^20 bytes.
1024 Magabytes = 1 Gigabyte or 2^30 bytes.
1024 Gigabytes = 1 terabyte or 2^40 bytes.
1024 Terabyes = 1 pecabyte or 2^50 bytes.
1024 Pecabytes = 1 exabyte or 2^60 bytes.
1024 Exabytes = 1 zettabyte or 2^70 bytes.
1024 Zettabyte = 1 yottabyte or 2^80 bytes.

That it.

 

[atlasm]

1 Terbyte Drive

Seems as though the unthinkable is think able...

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

It's external, but you can't have everything.

 

[Nic]

That isn't a 1 Terabyte drive, but 4 x 250GB drives linked together inside an external case. You can do the same with RAID and the JBOD setting.

 

[bodebliss]

THis is what I found:

Factor Name Symbol
1 deka da
2 hecto h
3 kilo k
6 mega M
9 giga G
12 tera T
15 peta P
18 exa E
21 zetta Z
24 yotta Y
27 xona X
30 weka W
33 vunda V
36 uda U
39 treda TD
42 sorta S
45 rinta R
48 quexa Q
51 pepta PP
54 ocha O
57 nena N
60 minga MI
63 luma L
Factor Name Symbol
10-1 deci d
10-2 centi c
10-3 milli m
10-6 micro µ
10-9 nano n
10-12 pico p
10-15 femto f
10-18 atto a
10-21 zepto z
10-24 yocto y
10-27 xonto x
10-30 wekto w
10-33 vunkto v
10-36 unto u
10-39 trekto td
10-42 sotro s
10-45 rimto r
10-48 quekto q
10-51 pekro pk
10-54 otro o
10-57 nekto nk
10-60 mikto mi
10-63 lunto l

http://www.plexos.com/256_bit_CPUs_should_be_enough.htm


Bode

 

[SNGX1275]

heh, sortabyte

 

[howard_hopkinso]

terabytes etc

Talking of large numbers. The largest number you could possibly have is called a googleplex which is a 1 followed by so many zero`s that if written in standard sized print on a strip of paper it would fill the entire known universe. Regards Howard:grinthumb

 

[howard_hopkinso]

googleplex

P.S if you or any one else is intrested in a googleplex and it`s definitions just type the word googlplex into your search bar and see what comes up oh wow Regards Howard:grinthumb

 

[LNCPapa]

There is no largest possible number and a googleplex is only 10^[(10)^100]. LOL - I said only

 

[bodebliss]

Well an ExaByte would be enough capacity to hold all words ever spoken by mankind from the beginning till now!

A petabyte at broadband download rates of a megabyte/second would take 31 years to download.

An exabyte would take 31,000 years to download.

I heard they have experimental networks between some supercomputers that are terabyte/second.

I heard also they will come out w/ 10 petabyte harddrives in 7 years. You can Gooooooooogle this.

They will probably come out with the 90 ghz processor in the same week.

I only hope it supports terabytes of mem.

 

[darkened_loki]

What's going on is that there are computers out there which are much more powerful than anything you see or get to use, or (probably) could ever afford. I am talking about machines that are used for more than just sitting in some kid's bedroom playing games and downloading mp3s - that's just the tip of the ice berg....

What I find more amazing than a 1 TB HDD is that you, in this day and age, actually seem to find a TB a lot of data. These days it is not. Not by a long shot.

I have 1/4 TB of HDD space approx, and its very easy to fill this space up. I would welcome a TB of disk space easy now that I have a cable modem internet connection at 512 kbps. Think about what space I will need when I can download whole DVDs instead of Divx rips..... at 7 GB or so a pop my TB will not last long....

Now a pecabyte or something... Now you are getting somewhere.... And certainly an exabyte.... Now you are scaring me. But I fail to find a TB HDD frightening in any shape or form and both hope and expect to be able to buy one some time very soon....

1000 GB is a terabyte.

1000 TB is a pecabyte.

1000 PB is an exabyte.

1000 EB is a zettabyte.

1000 ZB is a yottabyte.

Oh man... a yottabyte.... I don't think there is even a yottabyte of data in existence in the whole world.

1,000,000,000,000,000,000 MB in a yottabyte.

Prizes will be awared to who can find what 1000 yottabytes are....

the term you speak of is 1 yobibyte (YiB) = 2^80 bytes = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes

so as to these prizes? :haha:

 

[dopefisher]

1. prizes????? a 3 year old electronic tee shirt, apparently.

2. ROFLMFAO at this thread.

3. Let me guess.... Techspot.com forums debuted in Feb. 2002???

4. wow. someday this thread will be used as an official jokebook when ****bytes are so large and there are sooooo many names that the shortest usable size will be named something like sandiegocaliforniaunitedstatesofamericanorthamericawesternhemispherenorthernhemisphereearthsolarsyatemsunmilkywaygalaxyuniversalstudiosbytes.

5. perhaps one of you admins should change the name of this thread...its a little
obsolete.

6. OK last edit, i promise. Congratulations. Techspot.com is one of the 5 websites on the internet containing the word "sortabyte." and the only one in english at that.

 

[patio]

Seinfeld...yada yada yada.

patio

 

[dopefisher]

????????
did i miss something???

lol

 

[joshuarowley42]

or maybe a wafflebite

 

[linuxcorex]

They have had TB harddrives for around 20 years now, I wouldnt be surprised if they had a PB harddrive. Consumer TB Harddrives are right around the corner for the market. Although harddrive technology is so old, I wouldnt be surprised in 5-10 years to see something more hard. HD's are reaching their limitations in RPM speed and so forth.

 

[Enigma1988]

Big numbers

How many Lunto bytes in a Luma byte?

 

[Symbios]

Wow, this discussion has gone on for way too long! And I could really go for some waffle bytes right about now.

 

[Kevin16]

http://jimvb.home.mindspring.com/unitsystem.htm

 

[1985jack000]

Omg Look At This!

Apparently engadget says that seagate have invented a new "nano lubricant" for future hard drives. It says that thay could cram 10x the amount of storage into one drive! At the moment this would be 7.5 Terabytes (750GB x 10)! Check it out:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/01/seagates-leaking-hard-drives-for-10x-the-fun/

 

[pcaceit]

love all the names suggested, what is the world come to? it just brings me back to the days when i would make a program and save Data on punch tape and worked a mainframe with 4mb i think! it was mega powerful and fast

but i reckon the largest storage device ever will hold 1 Imposabyte which is 9.999999x10^9999 yottabytes, and will be owned by the inland revenue for storing details including genetic makeup for tax and credit checking purposes.

 

[chamillitarysk8]

hey what about a googlebyte 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 bytes

 

[peony_waters]

1000 yottabytes= 1 brontobyte
1000 brontobytes= 1 nisabytes
or so I've heard