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by Tondoteottotote on March 1st, 2008

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If Megabytes and Gigabytes are Megs and Gigs, what are Terabytes and Petabytes then?

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  • by Nelson - Jetpacking from bed on March 1st, 2008

    Nelson - Jetpacking from bed

    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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  • by Seraphim Shinobi on March 1st, 2008

    Seraphim Shinobi

    Ters an pets

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  • by G_tech on March 10th, 2008

    G_tech

    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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  • by Carwash on March 10th, 2008

    Carwash

    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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