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by .avallach on November 19th, 2008
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by hugejerk on November 19th, 2008
the word for 1000 TB is "Petabyte" (PB)
In binary, however, the number isn't a perfect thousand, and is actually 1024 (2^10). In that case, it is 1 PiB, which is 1024 TiB, which is 1,048,576 GiB, which is 1,073,741,824 MiB which is 1,099,511,627,776 Kib, which is 1,125,899,906,842,624 Bytes, which is 9,007,199,254,740,992 bits
'byte' was meant to be the reserved term which implied that K, M, T, P, etc. didn't mean a perfect thousand, but marketers saw that they could sell less for more if they meant it to be 1000 (i.e. 1 PB is not 1 PiB - it is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes, rather than 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes)
As such, it has been moved to the Ki, Mi, etc. notation, which is Kibi-Bytes, Mebi-Bytes, Gibi-Bytes, Tebi-Bytes, Pebi-Bytes, Exbi-Bytes, Zebi-Bytes, and Yobi-Bytes
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