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Originally posted by Darth Clem

1 thing .... all of these are slightly wrong

 

in reality

 

there are 1024 bytes in a kB

 

1024 kB in a MB

 

1024 MB in a GB

 

1024 GB in a TB

 

1024TB in a .... PB

 

im pretty sure it isnt penabyte .... but it begins with p

 

im sure u all knew this

 

and this is y u often get 2 diff size readings for HDD's and Floppys

 

I'm almost positive all of those "1024"s should be 1000s. Thus the name "Kilo" (thousand) in kilobyte, etc.

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*Imagines attaching an air conditioner to the back of his PC*

 

*Shudders*

 

How much power would you need in a household to use a terrabyte's worth of a holographic cube???

 

And how much heat does the thing give off?

 

*Thinks of the air conditioner again.*

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Originally posted by Cal_da_Darth

 

I'm almost positive all of those "1024"s should be 1000s. Thus the name "Kilo" (thousand) in kilobyte, etc.

 

the true MB is 1024 KB ...... but 1000 is often used to give easier numbers

 

thats y the sticker on yer HDD will say 1 thing and windows another

 

i dont know how to prove it ... but its true

 

edit: its to do with 1024 being a binary number 2^10

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These wacky holographic & microship hard drives have been in development/testing for some time now. When I see it on the CompUSA shelves I'll start drooling, but for now its just its just a "cool idea" that's not entirely realistic yet.

 

As for the cooling thing. Would a holographic hard drive get hot at all? I don't think the CPU or drive controller would suck up any more power or generate any more heat. They make ATA100 30G drives & ATA100 300G drives now. The only difference is the size, not how fast the data will come out of em.

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Clem is right on the 1024 thing, and there are 8 bits in a byte, 1024 bytes in a kilobyte and 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte because if it was 1000 your computer would light on fire because it dosent understand those numbers. (well really really old computers mostly) and because the language computers talk to themselves with is in binary code, which is 0s and ones such as: 000100101001001001000010100100100101001000100001 or maybe 01010 might mean A or whatever.

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y'all are right on the money about the correct binery 2^10 and all...

 

but the next step after terabyte is a Petabyte...

 

y'all's was close, but not quite...

 

I think my head is gonna explode thinking about that...

 

the example I was given was that a petabyte can hold all of the writen works of the world, and the next step after that, a Exobyte(I think) can hold every spoken word ever uttered by humankind since the begining of time...

 

think about THAT for a second... :D

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Originally posted by SPY_jmr1

y'all are right on the money about the correct binery 2^10 and all...

 

but the next step after terabyte is a Petabyte...

 

y'all's was close, but not quite...

 

I think my head is gonna explode thinking about that...

 

the example I was given was that a petabyte can hold all of the writen works of the world, and the next step after that, a Exobyte(I think) can hold every spoken word ever uttered by humankind since the begining of time...

 

think about THAT for a second... :D

 

Possible. Every letter on a page is a byte. So a giga-byte can hold about 1,000,000,000 letter so an exobyte would be about 1,000,000,000,000,000(1 * 10/15)

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Thats all confusing, but think of what they'll do in the future, like the PS9 commercial.....what kind of stuff theyll have then, heck by the time the PS9 would come out, it would be in about 35 yrs.....and ill be around 50 yrs. old...scary to think, huh?

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Originally posted by teutonicknight

Did you know that people hate it when you bump very old threads?

 

Nope :D

 

1.It isn't That old

2.I like computers and I think this is a neat topic

3.technology is growing faster than ever so in about a year or so

It might be out but really expensive and without this thread you would have no idea what it is :D

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