Win a Toshiba SSD bundle

[Azad_SIDDIK]

ooo nice ....toshiba ssd just look so cool

[banana999]

Thank you for the giveaway!

[=assassin=]

None of the answers are correct, there are 1,000,000 megabytes in a terabyte because mega- and tera- are SI prefixes. Did you mean mebibyte and tebibyte in the question? You may say that this is pedantic but SSDs are storage and the storage industry uses 1GB = 1,000,000 bytes - look at Toshiba's product briefs "Toshiba defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes..."

I was thinking the exact same thing... This is all the fault of Microsoft anyway, for naming things wrong in the first place.

[DanceswithUnix]

I was thinking the exact same thing... This is all the fault of Microsoft anyway, for naming things wrong in the first place.

They didn't start it, you could buy "1 kbit" ram chips that were 1024 x 1 bit. So we are probably blaming Intel or IBM here

[ET3D]

They didn't start it, you could buy "1 kbit" ram chips that were 1024 x 1 bit. So we are probably blaming Intel or IBM here

Far as I remember, K was used from the beginning for 1024, M for 1024*1024. It was storage manufacturers who at some point decided it was inconvenient to use powers of 1024 and started using 1000.

(Also, 'b' was used for bytes in the UK, so 100Kb was 100 kilo bytes, or 102400 bytes. Eventually the American notation of using uppercase B -- which granted, has some merit for distinguishing between bits and bytes -- was forced.)

[DanceswithUnix]

Far as I remember, K was used from the beginning for 1024, M for 1024*1024.

It was never universal even for RAM. If you can find an original 6502 data sheet it stated the chip could address 65K of ram, not 64K

Storage adopted SI prefixes very early on though.

[krane]

I'm in, thanks Hexus and Toshiba.

[Azad_SIDDIK]

bless me .... Lord Hexus!!

[P3G4SuSuOuT]

It would help if any of the answers were right. A terabyte is 1 trillion bits. Divide this by 1024 for kb and you get 976,562,500KB. Divide by 1024 again and you get 953,674.3MB. So please tell me which one of the 3 answer is the right one since non of them match any of the numbers here.

[miziel]

what if... 1 terabyte = 1073741824 kb?