If Megabytes and Gigabytes are Megs and Gigs, what are Terabytes and Petabytes then?
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Egao No Genki
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Ters an pets
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Since Mbs and Gbs are so common place now they have had the shortened nicknames for quite some time. Terabytes are becoming common place in business and are starting to be referred to as "Ters" (pronounced tear, like you are tearing a sheet of paper). Petabytes are not commonplace yet and still are refered to as Petabytes (same with Exa, etc). It general takes something becoming routine before it gets a nickname.
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bit bit 0 or 1 byte B 8 bits kibibit Kibit 1024 bits kilobit kbit 1000 bits kibibyte (binary) KiB 1024 bytes kilobyte (decimal) kB 1000 bytes megabit Mbit 1000 kilobits mebibyte (binary) MiB 1024 kibibytes megabyte (decimal) MB 1000 kilobytes gigabit Gbit 1000 megabits gibibyte (binary) GiB 1024 mebibytes gigabyte (decimal) GB 1000 megabytes terabit Tbit 1000 gigabits tebibyte (binary) TiB 1024 gibibytes terabyte (decimal) TB 1000 gigabytes petabit Pbit 1000 terabits pebibyte (binary) PiB 1024 tebibytes petabyte (decimal) PB 1000 terabytes exabit Ebit 1000 petabits exbibyte (binary) EiB 1024 pebibytes exabyte (decimal) EB 1000 petabytes http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/
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Despite working at a site where we have nearly two petabytes of storage, and regularly assign quotas in the terabytes, we don't yet have a shortened version of those words. "Ters" just sounds wrong to me. There's a hard sound to "Meg" and "Gig" that works well for a short word, and "Ter" and "Pet" don't quite have it.
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