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Bits and Bytes FAQ; Numbers are Fun :)
Topic Started: Jun 25 2004, 12:19 AM (1,354 Views)
Stefan-ZNR
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travis_104
Jul 31 2004, 12:33 AM
Someone asked me recently if there was such thing as a Picobyte. Is there such thing?

Yes

But as in kilobyte, no, there isn't. A picobyte would be 10-12 byte, a millionth of a millionth of a byte. A byte is eight bits, and a bit is the smallest unit, so you can't go smaller than 1/8th of a byte.
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Order Of Thy Phoenix
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I never knew about bits, petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes or yottabytes but yeah having a YB of everything would pwn :D
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Evinta
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i think the most you would need for a PC and server is 120gb, if your running somthing like IF you would need WAY more
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I have 160 Gb :)

Great FAQ never knew the last 4 there lol. :P
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Aug 15 2004, 06:48 AM
I never knew about bits, petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes or yottabytes but yeah having a YB of everything would pwn :D

A YB of ram would not provide any performance increase at all, but a YB of hard drive space would kick {Curse Word}, but I highly doubt anyone will ever use that much
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cookieskater2
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yah i got 160 gigs and only used 50 but im gonna get sims 2 and junk and i keep saving all my graphics and i work with video so most of my videos are a gig anyway so i think ic ood use alot lol
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Very nice guide good job man :D
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AuraStorm
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Lol Wut. That's what he's saying ^
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I want a 9,671,406,556,917,033,397,649,408 YB of Ram :(
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KoolDrew
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AuraStorm
Sep 20 2004, 04:54 PM
I want a 9,671,406,556,917,033,397,649,408 YB of Ram :(

why. It would not help at all.... It would not be any different from like 2GB of ram unless you run a server....... even 2GB is overkill for most users..

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Ha, what do you think computers are all about. OVERKILL

But actually 2 Yottha of space would help you alot.

First off all if it were to become common around the world, web compressors would be disabled making your load time alot faster. With games, they won't care about a 256RAM peak(that is the standard for now, any game peaking above that is a bad game)

But for now the thing that is keeping computers back in speed is the L1 buffer. At the moment most L1 buffers run anywhere between 1300KB p/tck and 3800KB p/tck While the L2 buffers can easlily handle about 512.000KB p/tck.

So.......

Sincerely,
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Websurfer
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You forgot about Nibbles (4 bits/one half of a byte)

I swear to God I'm not maknig htat up, I'm studying for the A+ exam and it's in my book :lol:

You also forgot a word, which is 16 bits, or two bytes
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Man, that is one hell of a bump you gave this topic.

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Yottabyte
1024 Zettabytes
1,048,576 Exabytes
1,073,741,824 Petabytes
1,099,511,627,776 Terabytes
1,125,899,906,842,624 Gigabytes
1,152,921,504,606,846,976 Megabytes
1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 Kilobytes
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 Bytes
9,671,406,556,917,033,397,649,408 Bits


I wonder if we'll ever see the day GMail offers that :P
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Scott
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It's basically a pinned topic, so it doesn't really matter if it's bumped.
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Man, I probably need like a 80gb drive. I just installed a DVD writer and it requires 18 GB to write a dual-layer DVD and stuff, and I don't think my 40GB drive can handle it...

But would it be nice if we're able to transfer up to 8 Ybps on the Internet??

Or how about storing TRILLIONS of movies on a 1 YB disk?

I don't get why people say it's overkill but it might happen...
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