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[Black Sheep]

....... you learn something new. Whilst having a read about Ethernet backhaul, I cam across a word I've never heard of before, an 'Exabyte'. What a beast. 


An exabyte (EB) is a large unit of computer data storage, two to the sixtieth power bytes. The prefix exa means one billion billion, or one quintillion, which is a decimal term.

[Dray]

Don't get me started on Domegemegrottebytes

[Black Sheep]

Petta, Zetta, Yotta - Bytes ......... and Domegemathingy ................. who knew Thanks Dray, cos I GOOGLED your long word and that's what threw up the other units as well.

I genuinely thought Gig/Terra were the largest. It's good to learn. 

[loonylion]

ZFS = Zettabyte file system

[Weaver]

Petabyte databases are around. (1 thousand terabytes).

[d2d4j]

Hi

Imagine restoring that amount of data

For anyone wanting to see real time stats from a peering, here is linx in London, which we use as 1 of our connections

Many thanks

John

https://www.linx.net/pubtools/trafficstats.html

[AArdvark]

....... you learn something new. Whilst having a read about Ethernet backhaul, I cam across a word I've never heard of before, an 'Exabyte'. What a beast. 


An exabyte (EB) is a large unit of computer data storage, two to the sixtieth power bytes. The prefix exa means one billion billion, or one quintillion, which is a decimal term.

There was, many years ago, a Tape Storage Company called Exabyte, now part of Tandberg Data.
I learnt the word from their product 'Bumpf' and looked it up at the time.

From a quick Google there is:

1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
1024 Exabyte = 1 zettabyte
1024 zettabyte = 1 Yottabyte
1024 Yottabytes = 1 Xenottabyte
1024 Xenottabytes = 1 Shilentnobyte
1024 Shilentnobytes = 1 Domegemegrottebyte
1024 Domegemegrottebytes = 1 Icosebyte
1024 Icosebyte = 1 Monoicosebyte

[roseway]

The words may be right, but the multipliers aren't (as far as most standardisation authorities are concerned). You should replace the 1024s with 1000s. For the corresponding binary units (1024 multipliers) the units are kibibyte, mebibyte, etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

[kitz]

Imagine restoring that amount of data
For anyone wanting to see real time stats from a peering, here is linx in London, which we use as 1 of our connections

https://www.linx.net/pubtools/trafficstats.html

and that is just LINX peering!
It was interesting to see traffic growth over the past decade
https://www.linx.net/pubtools/trafficstats.html?stats=decade

[burakkucat]

And one other additional correction is required --

There is no multiplier that uses the upper case letter K. The multiplier, kilo, is signified by the lower case letter k.

The reason is quite simple, the upper case letter K is the symbol for Kelvin, a unit on the same named temperature scale. The zero point on the Kelvin temperature scale is that of absolute zero, −273.15°C or −459.67°F.

[AArdvark]

The words may be right, but the multipliers aren't (as far as most standardisation authorities are concerned). You should replace the 1024s with 1000s. For the corresponding binary units (1024 multipliers) the units are kibibyte, mebibyte, etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

It was an old post before the change to kibibytes as K.
Sorry did not notice!!

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[William Grimsley]

1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
1024 Exabyte = 1 zettabyte
1024 zettabyte = 1 Yottabyte
1024 Yottabytes = 1 Xenottabyte
1024 Xenottabytes = 1 Shilentnobyte
1024 Shilentnobytes = 1 Domegemegrottebyte
1024 Domegemegrottebytes = 1 Icosebyte
1024 Icosebyte = 1 Monoicosebyte

1024 Monoicosebyte = 1 Jigglebyte