Re: Units of measure

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Billy Wheeler wrote: > On 13 Nov 98, at 12:29, Matthew Atkinson wrote: > > <WEEKEND MODE> > > Albert et al., > > > > I'm afraid your units aren't quite right: > > > > A Terabyte (with only 1 'r') is 1024 GB, or 2^40 bytes > > A Petabyte is 1024TB, or 2^50 bytes > > An Exabyte (without the 'h') is 1024PB, or 2^60 bytes > > *I* thought an Exabyte was a backup device. Har-de-har-har... :-) > > > Just for interest, and perhaps for the future (!?) a Zettabyte > > is 1024EB or 2^70 bytes, and a Yottabyte is 1024ZB or 2^80 bytes. > > How can a Zettabyte come before a Yottabyte? :-) > </WEEKEND MODE> > > -- > > Ciao, > Billy > > /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za > \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ > / > \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I > / think we should go along with him..." > \\________________________________________________________________________________________________ > Not to be confused with a Yoddabyte which is 2^0 bytes by a green, furry, swamp-living zen master. ==================================================================== Harold Luse Phone: (970) 491-4120 Veterinary Teaching Hospital Fax: (970) 491-1275 Colorado State University Pager: (970) 229-8173 Fort Collins, Colorado USA E-mail: hluse@vth.colostate.edu ====================================================================