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| Thread ID: 77359 | 2007-03-07 02:01:00 | What's A Zettabyte Anyway? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 530783 | 2007-03-07 02:01:00 | IDC took a whack at calculating how much digital information the world is generating and came up with a figure of 161 billion gigabytes . . . . . 161 exabytes . . . . for last year, factoring in the multiple copies of files like songs and videos . To put that in perspective ( . siliconvalley . com/mld/siliconvalley/16839671 . htm" target="_blank">www . siliconvalley . com) . . . does saying that would fill 2 billion top-line iPods help at all? Luckily, says IDC, total available storage last year was 185 exabytes, leaving room for a big swap file . But the trend looks threatening . IDC figures we'll have about 601 exabytes of storage available in 2010, but we'll be producing 988 exabytes (closing in on 1 zettabyte) of new information, creating an overflow situation that will result in headlines like "Toddler swept away in raging data stream . " |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 530784 | 2007-03-07 02:51:00 | Woah. Don't put THAT on my 150GB hard drive! :D |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 530785 | 2007-03-07 02:54:00 | IDC took a whack at calculating how much digital information the world is generating and came up with a figure of 161 billion gigabytes In other words they plucked a figure out of thin air and built a press release around it ;) A bit like the technique PR companies use when billing their clients. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 530786 | 2007-03-07 04:13:00 | I read a rumour a little while back that Apple was going to be licensing the Zettabyte file system from Sun who are the holders of the IP and developers of the system. "A zettabyte (derived from the SI prefix zetta-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one sextillion (one long scale trilliard) bytes. It is commonly abbreviated ZB. At this time, no computer has one zettabyte of storage. Because of a traditional inconsistency, "zettabytes" are often intended to mean zebibytes in common speech. This usage is not recommended as it creates confusion (see below) and has been facing increasing opposition by many technical standards and legal entities in the past few years.[citation needed] Because of irregularities in the definition and usage of terms for byte multiples, the exact number can be either one of the following: * 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — 10007, or 1021. * 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes — 10247, or 270. Because of these irregularities, the term "zebibyte" has been proposed as an unambiguous reference to the latter value. (See binary prefixes.) The Z in Sun's ZFS file system originally stood for zettabyte. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 530787 | 2007-03-07 19:24:00 | Well, if you get one of these storage systems, I would strongly recommend getting a third party defragmentation program rather than relying on the Windows supplied routine. Possibly it would be a good idea to use several partitions too. ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 530788 | 2007-03-08 00:11:00 | winmacguy: your: * 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — 10007, or 1021. * 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes — 10247, or 270. I am not sure that it would make much difference to me...both numbers are pretty far out anyway no matter what the final count is. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 530789 | 2007-03-08 03:22:00 | winmacguy: your: * 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — 10007, or 1021. * 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes — 10247, or 270. I am not sure that it would make much difference to me...both numbers are pretty far out anyway no matter what the final count is. The definition I posted is from Wikipedia, it is waaay to much for me to be able to work out. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 530790 | 2007-03-09 04:20:00 | It's easy: "One, two, three, many, lots". :cool: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 530791 | 2007-03-09 04:30:00 | Where in the world would you send your backup files? I don't think NZ has enough shelf space or electricity. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 530792 | 2007-03-09 19:27:00 | Let alone enough land area to put all those hard drives. :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
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