What the heck is a Terrabyte????

[huskers1217]

Sounds like @iruletheskool streams way too much p0rn at Husker games

Nebraska’s 2015 season Wi-Fi stats: Two 4+ TB games, 3.4 TB average

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

It's like a gigabyte, except Terran Pettaway tho

 

[Red_Alert]

Kilobyte = One Thousand bytes
Megabyte = One Million bytes
Gigabyte = One Billion bytes
Terrabyte = One Trillion bytes

 

[corn train]

Similar to getting bit by Felicia, could lead to infection

 

[HuskerinBig10]

The next number up is a petabyte.

1 PB = 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

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billionaire
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1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes

Back in my computer networking days in the dotcom boom, we were talking petabytes. I was one of the twenty four engineers making recommendations to the CEO and President about where the company should be headed.

The Top Three bananas all thought STORAGE was the answer, and all 24 of us engineers told them, no storage is going to be a commodity. The answer is speed and the size of the pipes. We also told them how everyone will be using a handheld device to connect to the internet(which turned out to be the smartphone).

The Top three bananas agreed on the handheld device, but disagreed on speed and big pipes. They bought a storage company, Encore Storage, which quickly turned into a massive right off.

 

[tometom]

to what HuskerinBig10 said:

 

[huskers1217]

Back in my day, we had 1.44m floppies.

I forgot how much the big black floppies had

 

[HuskerPower52]

quantum computers

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

Back in my day.....

 

[KansasSooner]

Back in my day, we had 1.44m floppies.

I forgot how much the big black floppies had

They had various densities, the 5½" were 128 KByte to start with, but eventually the double sided disks went up to 768 Kybtes if I recall correctly. I am not really sure how much the 8" floppies held but we did use one to cold boot our VAX 11/780.

Edit: The last generation of 5½" floppies went to 1.2 MBytes but weren't very reliable...

Back in my day.....

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I still have a lot of those with TRS-80 programs and data somewhere.

 

[KansasSooner]

And they were 5¼" not 5½", it's just been too long.

 

[Red_Alert]

@KansasSooner probably remembers programs on punch cards.

My dad used to bring thousands of them home that had gotten shuffled up and have me put them back in numerical order with rubber bands around them.

 

[HuskerinBig10]

@KansasSooner probably remembers programs on punch cards.

My dad used to bring thousands of them home that had gotten shuffled up and have me put them back in numerical order with rubber bands around them.

HEY!!!!! I learned to code in Fortran with punch cards. You turned in your cards, came back in a couple of days only to be told there was an error. Usually, I forgot to put a Parenthethi?(is that a word) on a card.

My relative worked at IBM, back in the day, he told me how excited they were when they got 8 KB(yes 8,000 bytes) of memory and they used the phone cords to move data around by unplugging from port 1 and plugging to port 2.

 

[HuskerPower52]

quantum entanglement is a possibility in the PlayStation 5

 

[popeyecv64]

I have ta use a toof pick ta get them outa my teef