The Reverend Posted December 30, 2004 CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 1000 GB is a terabyte. 1000 TB is a pecabyte. 1000 PB is an exabyte. 1000 EB is a zettabyte. 1000 ZB is a yottabyte. Oh man... a yottabyte.... I don't think there is even a yottabyte of data in existence in the whole world. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 MB in a yottabyte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted December 30, 2004 CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 the TB rigs come with dual 500 gb's.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted December 30, 2004 CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 Something for everyone's Book of Worthless Information ...or maybe not? Certainly not, as there are 1024 MBs in one GB, 1024 GB in one TB,etc. Btw, with dual 500 Gig HDs you don't reach the 1 TB storage space. HD manufacturers don't know that it takes 1024 MB to get one GB, they just use the 1000 rule to make their HDs look bigger. I believe there's more then one zettabyte of data around, for more problably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted December 30, 2004 CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 Plus windows never gives you your allotted amount of space anyway, so youll have even less then that. Like with my 80 GB, windows only allows me to use 74.5 GB of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Posted December 30, 2004 Author CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 The little blurb that I started this topic with is just a 'cut and paste' from an article written in 2001, and they were exclaiming how much wonderful space they were enjoying with their new 80GB HDDs that were shipping with the new PCs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netmasta Posted December 30, 2004 CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 Plus windows never gives you your allotted amount of space anyway, so youll have even less then that. Like with my 80 GB, windows only allows me to use 74.5 GB of it From what I've heard Windows and some other software measures harddrive size a little different than HDD manufactures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcin541 Posted December 30, 2004 CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 As RTB mentioned, HDD manufacturers say they give you 80GB of space which they calculate as 1000*80 which is 80000MB but in reality 1gb is 1024MB so they would have to give you 81920MB of space, which they would loose money on. Thats what I think they do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted December 30, 2004 CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 Unfortunately all technology is similar in that they ALL want to use different rules for measurement or interface, I'm sure most of us have been pissed b4 when you go to plug something in and the plug that is being used is either to big or to small. Of course when you ask someone that works for a company why they did that their answer is that its necessary to use proprietary hardware and software to protect the system(bank account).......yeah right, the truth is follow the money trail, its always about the Benjamin's......As a consumer I have no choice and thats the part I don't like...... Microwave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Posted December 30, 2004 Author CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 Righto! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted December 30, 2004 CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 also iv noticed , the larger the drive the larger chunk of it is "missing" ! my 40 is missing 3 gb, my 60 is missing 4 gb, and my 80 is missing 6 gb =( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Posted December 30, 2004 CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 dayum, my computer only has 40gb and it only allows like 38 to be used, and im having to delete stuff cuz ive got like 4-5gb left. i need a better pc... **sniffle, sniffle** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted December 30, 2004 CID Share Posted December 30, 2004 also iv noticed , the larger the drive the larger chunk of it is "missing" ! my 40 is missing 3 GB, my 60 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzero2309 Posted December 31, 2004 CID Share Posted December 31, 2004 im not 100% sure about this, but i've heard that one of the biggest reasons to switch to linux is because it doesnt rob you of those few gigs like windows does i wish linux and windows would just combine it would be called.....winux...or....lindows...or....WinLin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted December 31, 2004 CID Share Posted December 31, 2004 lindos has been done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted December 31, 2004 CID Share Posted December 31, 2004 so how does this happen? I thought my government was protecting me!!....LOL I guess they either don't care or don't know about it. Btw, it's not only the manufacturers's fault, the file system (NTFS, FAT32, etc) also take a fair bit of space for the file table. I guess Linux uses a different way of allocating space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted January 4, 2005 CID Share Posted January 4, 2005 i think the thing 'bout linux not losing capacity on drives like windoze is a myth, but i'll e-mail the mythbusters about it, see what jamie can come up with. the 'loss' in capacity is due to a mentality that exists in all trades: how deep, how hard and how fast can we screw the customer. they advertise with one gig = 1000mb, some even put up little disclaimers about this, then the OS has to be a bit more accurate calculating capacity, so the 1024 megs per gig rule is applied, thereby causing 'loss' of capacity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigw Posted January 6, 2005 CID Share Posted January 6, 2005 What about moores Law? I think that it is coming true as we speak.If our speeds go up any more we will break Einstiens theory. The bigger thing about harddrives is converting them to memory( ram) insted so they stop slowing us down also why do we need to fill them up with so much junk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinOhioRR Posted January 8, 2005 CID Share Posted January 8, 2005 my windows only lets me use 111GB of 120GB pisses me off!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netmasta Posted January 8, 2005 CID Share Posted January 8, 2005 This page may explane some things. Binary vs. Decimal Measurements. http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/binary_v_decimal_measurement.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted January 8, 2005 CID Share Posted January 8, 2005 no justin. as explained in post below, you have 120 gig 'metric' but what counts is the 111 gig 'binary' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Posted January 8, 2005 Author CID Share Posted January 8, 2005 I dunno RTB, I use Redhat every now and then (dual-boot system here only because certain programs HAVE to have a 'nix' system to run them), and it's using NTFS (New Type File System) ...and it seems to be every bit as megabyte-hungry as Windows ever was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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