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A new study has found Americans absorbed some 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008.
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A new study has found Americans absorbed some 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008.
Must be the recession. Too much free time.
Who hasn't heard of a zettabyte? Zetta is just a common prefix for a certain power of 10, like kilo-, mega-, giga- tera-.
Did they mean the base-10 zettabytes (10^24, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), or base-2, i.e. binary, zebibytes (2^70, 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424), because that is an 18.59% difference.
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Originally Posted by borandi
Gigabyte > Terabyte?Quote:
Yes, zettabytes. And no, we never heard of a zettabyte before either, but it's apparently 1 billion terabytes, or 1 million million gigabytes.
I'd say that 95% of that was bittorrent traffic.
Fixed that for you :mrgreen:Quote:
Originally Posted by 12GaugeShotty
This is the internet. Leave your brain outside the door, we have wikipedia.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChuvelxD
Though seriously, 18% is a huge difference.
No. That would be 4%. BluRay rips tend to be anywhere from 4GB to 15GB in size and are downloaded at mind blowing rates over private torrent trackers. That dwarfs the traffic of porn and regular internet browsing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Funkstar
1 million = 1 thousand * 1 thousand = 1 thousand thousandsQuote:
Originally Posted by ChuvelxD
1 billion = 1 thousand * 1 million = 1 thousand million
1 million million / 1 thousand = 1 thousand million
Which, conveniently, matches the "1 billion terabytes or one billion billion gigabytes" in the article.