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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: WOW!!!! (nsr)
1-terabyte external drive
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-10310837-58.html?tag=rtcol;pop
How many gigabytes equal a terabyte? 1000 gigabytes (GB) equals 1 terabyte (TB)
This like getting room full of floppy's in a briefcase size package....
I'm getting one...
Processor or Virtual Storage
· 1 Bit = Binary Digit
· 8 Bits = 1 Byte
· 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 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
· 1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
· 1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
· 1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte
Disk Storage
· 1 Bit = Binary Digit
· 8 Bits = 1 Byte
· 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
· 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
· 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
· 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
· 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
· 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
· 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
· 1000 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
· 1000 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
· 1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: WOW!!!! (nsr)
With all your data and more on the way, I'm sure you could use it.
I imagine Ole "Wishbone" Clear won't be far behind you. I imagine John has his Ford Explorer loaded for San Diego and it looking like one of those Laotion jitneys.  |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: WOW!!!! (nsr)
....or the Beverly Hillbilly's...... |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 877
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Hmm...wonder who's gonna be brave 'nough to call Chief Clear Uncle Jed...  |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: WOW!!!! (nsr)
Uncle Jed had hair. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1323
Location: Oxnard, CA | Subject: RE: WOW!!!! (nsr)
Ric - 2009-08-21 12:41 PM
· 1 Bit = Binary Digit
· 8 Bits = 1 Byte
Ric:
One problem. If you have an 8-bit machine, then 8 bits = 1 byte. That would mean you have something older than a Commodore PET computer.
Considering a wall switch is a 1 bit machine, and a "3-way" set of light switches - where you can turn on the light at the top of the stairs and turn it off at the bottom - that is a 2-bit machine.
Since then, they have gone to a 16 bit machine, and now most home computers are 32 bit machines. Some mainframe computers can be 64 bit machines, and I believe the latest Cray Supercomputer is a 128 bit machine. 128 bits = 1 byte.
But that's okay, the big question is, if you have a pit bull and it bites a member of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, would it take 1024 pit bulls to make a PETABYTE?
· 1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
Or for that matter, how many Tyranosaurus Rex's would it take to bite a Bronto?
· 1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
Or as Seinfelt would say, yadda yadda yadda, or is it Yotta Yotta Yotta?
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: WOW!!!! (nsr)
Too much time on yer hands there bud...:-) |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 566
Location: Inyokern, Ca. | Subject: RE: WOW!!!! (nsr)
That's a good price. Apples Time Capsule holds 2 Terabytes, but it's also a wifi base station and backs up all your Macs, wirelessly.
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Old Salt
Posts: 402
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And as big as that is, you know you can fill it up in no time at all! It is amazing to see how fast things progress. Remember the old Comador 64? Man, that was state of the art. Heck I remember the first color video game that came out in the arcades just after pong. It was the one were you broke bricks and each layer was a different color, but the colors were from a plastic sticker attached to the monitor. It is amazing! I was going through some old games I've had and found one I wanted to play again. It was on the 3.5 disk. I actually had to go to DOS to install. I hav'nt done that in years. To avoid all that though I installed the game onto a CD and can play it that way. And I have lots of room left on the CD. Are you thinking of getting one of the newer machines?
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 602
Location: Visalia, Ca. | Subject: RE: Ancient Computer Games (nsr)
Every once in a while, I power up my old Apple IIc (1983 vintage), load "Brick-out" from the 5-1/4 floppy, and pretend the bricks are all the people and things that have ticked me off over the last month or so. Just as effective as splitting logs for the fireplace, and no sore muscles afterward.
I'm pleasantly surprised every time I get a clean start-up.
Those old discs hold data longer than they were expected to.
I'm going to have to dig my old Apple II+ (1979) out of the garage and see if it still works.
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Ancient Computer Games (nsr)
I still have an old Win95 machine I keep running for some of the older games that will not play on new systems. Almost wish I had a DOS machine left to play some of the older ones. |
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Crew
Posts: 77
Location: Moab, UT | Subject: RE: WOW!!!! (nsr)
When I worked for a living, I ran a corporate data center back in the '90s, and I bought the first Terabyte RAID Disk Array for $75.00/gigabyte ($.075/MB), which was an outstanding deal. I now have a MacPro with 4TB of disk attached to 12TB of RAID 5 network attached storage (NAS) running on a 1GB/Sec. ethernet LAN, which is my onsite backup. I also have a VIsta PC with 4TB disk and 12GB RAM network attached to 10TB RAID 5 NAS arrays. The last 4TB arrays I bought were Buffalo Link Stations which cost $599 each for a per gigabyte cost of $.60. That's over two orders of magnitude cheaper in just 10 years!
When I retired in 2000, I took up photography full-time, and I have been working with the National Park Service documenting all the pictograph panels in Canyonlands National Park for the past three years. I photograph them with 21MP digital cameras, one for visible, a second one converted for infrared, and a third camera shooting B&W film through red, green & blue filters for archival storage. When I stack the visible and IR layers on top of each other in Photoshop, the file size often exceeds 1GB per image, so all the gains in storage capacity are gobbled by increased file sizes.
National Geographic TV was out here last November for two weeks doing a special on Canyonlands, and they spent four days following me around the park shooting painted rocks. That TV special, Wild Places-Canyonlands, will air this Thanksgiving at 8:00 pm Eastern time on the National Geographic Channel. Not bad for an old bubblehead with barely a high school eddycation.
By the way, working for a living is highly overrated! After all, work is just another four-letter-word... |
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