Cubano Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 You have it backwards, I think. A gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, which is 1000 kilobytes, which is 1000 bytes. A kibibyte is 1024 bytes, or what we commonly refer to as a kilobyte.This is how hard drive makers always win the "1 GB = 1000 MB" argument, because they're technically correct... A gigabyte is 2^30, which equals 1,073,741,824. I think it goes like this: 1 megabyte = 1024 bytes 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes Atleast that was the way they tought me in my CS classes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goheels681 Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I've only one terabyte :( I only have 40GB :crazy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdsams Veteran Posted September 1, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 1, 2004 ,Aug 31 2004, 19:31] :omg:so ur saying that i have one doggabyte of porn hmm interesting :shifty: couldnt that also be refered to as a b!tchabyte as well :woot: for those who are slower than the average human, a female dog is also called a b!tch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted September 1, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 1, 2004 Linux, I believe, equates it as 1000 mb = 1 gb. Either way, it's always 1024 mb = 1 gb for me :) If you do an ls -lh (long form, human readable), it defaults to powers of 1024. You can use a --si modifier to use powers of 1000, if you prefer it expressed that way. But, the default in Linux is 1024. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivand Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 I know, I'm at only 484GB. I feel inept now. I have 80, I feel terribly miserable now :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nX07 Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 I have 80, I feel terribly miserable now :cry: I got 40 in this machine :( I am so....... ashamed.!! :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimreaper Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 will there be dickabyte and pussyabyte too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriz Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Awesome. Maybe we will be seeing a 1 Doggabyte HD in like 400 years :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altezza Veteran Posted September 1, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 1, 2004 I only have 160 gig in total and don't know what to put there since I'm on 56k and rarely download anything. But that might end soon as I am planning to go back to broadband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 I know, I'm at only 484GB. I feel inept now. Just when I thought my 200GB total was large.. damn.. lol ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echilon Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 In the UK, 1,000,000,000 is a thousand million, not a billion, a billion is a million million, 1,000,000,000,000 ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kairon Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 I only have 80, 40, 80, and 80 (TIVO) all in different machines with one 80 close to full thanks to the size of games these days. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerxes Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 :cry: my 40Gb HDD seems so small now :cry: :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted September 1, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 1, 2004 i only knew up to pettabyte lol interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted September 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 2, 2004 doggabyte=1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GB (sextillion) i only just noticed that, sextillion? lol, did u make that up? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starway Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 Considering games used to take only one floppy and now they take multipale cds I can see why you might need one in the future. Let's say we moved form a 1Mb game 20 years ago to a 1Gb game now (roughly). Or 2Mb and 2 Gb. That's only 1 order of magnetude. Maybe in 20 years we will be at 1 or 2 orders of magnetude from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted September 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 2, 2004 Let's say we moved form a 1Mb game 20 years ago to a 1Gb game now (roughly). Or 2Mb and 2 Gb. That's only 1 order of magnetude. Maybe in 20 years we will be at 1 or 2 orders of magnetude from now. Ummm... 1 MB to 10 MB would be one order of magnitude. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unique Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 no matter what the debate; we'll all need about 3 doggabytes to run Longhorn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkeye Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 i only just noticed that, sextillion? lol, did u make that up? :p Nope, that is the term in the Unites States for 1 followed by 21 zeroes, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. You can look it up in a dictionary. It goes way beyond that. With each additional increase in by 1000 (?1000), you go into septillions, octillions, nonillions, decillions, etc. Have a look at this page to boggle your mind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomCalsItVerticlyChalenged Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 they could make programs that learn with that much data Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treemonster Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 cool necro bro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanderermy Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 One word: PORN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 holy thread resurrection :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timster Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 have fun defragging that wow, i didn't even look at the date .. 2004 ?? i thought threads were removed after some years of inactivity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 that's insane .. what the hell would you store on a HD like that if there were one available :l My first hard disk years ago was 49Mb... I struggled to fill that. I never would have thought I would need a 1Tb drive. Now look at it, 1Tb drives are easily filled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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