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    News - US data consumption goes through the roof

    A new study has found Americans absorbed some 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008.
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    Re: News - US data consumption goes through the roof

    Must be the recession. Too much free time.

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    Re: News - US data consumption goes through the roof

    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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    Re: News - US data consumption goes through the roof

    Quote Originally Posted by borandi View Post
    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.
    No one is impressed.....

    Yes, zettabytes. And no, we never heard of a zettabyte before either, but it's apparently 1 billion terabytes, or 1 million million gigabytes.
    Gigabyte > Terabyte?

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    Re: News - US data consumption goes through the roof

    I'd say that 95% of that was bittorrent traffic.

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    Re: News - US data consumption goes through the roof

    Quote Originally Posted by 12GaugeShotty View Post
    I'd say that 95% of that was porn
    Fixed that for you

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    Re: News - US data consumption goes through the roof

    Quote Originally Posted by ChuvelxD View Post
    No one is impressed.....
    This is the internet. Leave your brain outside the door, we have wikipedia.

    Though seriously, 18% is a huge difference.

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    Re: News - US data consumption goes through the roof

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    Fixed that for you
    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.

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    Re: News - US data consumption goes through the roof

    Quote Originally Posted by ChuvelxD View Post
    Gigabyte > Terabyte?
    1 million = 1 thousand * 1 thousand = 1 thousand thousands
    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.

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