The Petabyte Hard Drive & Funfacts - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=windwakr;20675938]Drive capacity goes by 1000 times, not 1024. That's why a 320GB HD is only 298G[b]i[/b]B. [editline]...[/editline] And seeing as how the guy making it is scientific and crap, he wouldn't use Petabyte for 1024 times, he'd use Pebibyte. The article writer needs to learn his facts. [editline]...[/editline] People rating me dumb don't know anything about drive manufacturers or the correct usage of MB/GB/TB/etc. :downs:[/QUOTE] The only reason they use the -bibyte system is because they're able to advertise more for less using the retarded loophole that is the -bibyte.

I hope that drive manufacturers start using the 1024*1024 rather than 1000*1000 so I don't feel ripped-off every time i buy a new harddrive.

[QUOTE=windwakr;20675938]Drive capacity goes by 1000 times, not 1024. That's why a 320GB HD is only 298G[b]i[/b]B. [editline]...[/editline] And seeing as how the guy making it is scientific and crap, he wouldn't use Petabyte for 1024 times, he'd use Pebibyte. The article writer needs to learn his facts. [editline]...[/editline] People rating me dumb don't know anything about drive manufacturers or the correct usage of MB/GB/TB/etc. :downs:[/QUOTE] Love the boxes, even though the man is right.

Need a price

[QUOTE=benjgvps;20688213]Hard drive space is advancing really really fast, though it makes no sense for consumers if we can't have cheap access to fast internet connections.[/QUOTE] Or even access to fast internet connections period. Where i live, we only have Comcast and Comcast isn't all that fast since they refuse to upgrade their lines/hardware but think it is still ok to buy out companies willing to do so and then charge the customers more money so they can buy out said companies.

[QUOTE=G-Strogg;20702115]I hope that drive manufacturers start using the 1024*1024 rather than 1000*1000 so I don't feel ripped-off every time i buy a new harddrive.[/QUOTE] (Or maybe operating systems should start reporting it as actual gigabytes rather than gibibytes.)

[QUOTE=BmB;20704199](Or maybe operating systems should start reporting it as actual gigabytes rather than gibibytes.)[/QUOTE] Why would they want to do that? Computer storage is based on powers of 2, and the only confusion is caused by hard drive sizes which is the fault of the HDD manufacturers.

Because one way says something is something it's not, the other doesn't. From that point of view the confusion isn't the fault of hardware. But rather the software reporting an incorrect unit.

1024 TB = 1 PB? :aaaaa:

[QUOTE=BmB;20708646]Because one way says something is something it's not, the other doesn't. From that point of view the confusion isn't the fault of hardware. But rather the software reporting an incorrect unit.[/QUOTE] Up until recently all of the standards organizations recognized the base 2 interpretations of kilobyte, megabyte, etc so they were correct units, just not the usual SI units.

guy seems to be talking crap

And virus scanning would take a week.

[QUOTE=paul simon;20740994]And virus scanning would take a week.[/QUOTE] Not if you have a really fast processor

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;20741024]Not if you have a [B]decent computer[/B][/QUOTE] Fixed

[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;20702285]Need a price[/QUOTE] Take 1TB drive and take that times 1000. :v:

[url]http://colossalstorage.net/home.htm[/url] They can barely make a functional website.

[QUOTE=laserpanda;20748462][url]http://colossalstorage.net/home.htm[/url] They can barely make a functional website.[/QUOTE] [quote=website]Holographic Drives are beginning materials research and prototype development and will not be on the market until 2009.[/quote] I don't think they've updated it in a while...