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cryowaffle
on March 1, 2013
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Whoa... really, 100 MILLION gigabytes to store "The Index"? Wow. That's big.
aiiane
on March 1, 2013
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aka 95+ petabytes.
ithkuil
on March 2, 2013
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100 million gigabytes = 100 petabytes ~= 88.8 pebibytes
100 million gibibytes ~= 95 pebibytes
runlevel1
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I see the value of this distinction, but I can't shake the feeling that a word used for years has been co-opted by marketing and replaced with something that sounds silly when spoken out loud.
DigitalJack
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I prefer 100 MegaGigaBytes, son.
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