This evening, my husband was looking at a hard drive online. When I asked him if he was thinking about getting a new hard drive, he said, "This one's half a terabite. That's more that we'd ever use!"
A terabite?!?!? What the heck is a terabite?!?!?
A terrabyte, he informs me, is 1000 Gigabytes. So, this hard drive that he was looking at had 500 Gigabytes. Apparently, that's a lot!
So, this made me a little curious about this lingo that I know nothing about. I looked it up and found my answer on WikiAnswers. There is a whole language out there that has to do with bytes. I really only thought there were Bytes, Megabytes and Gigabytes. That is where my knowledge stopped. It's like a whole place value system for computer bytes. It goes like this:
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 Zettabyte = 1 Zottabyte
1000 Zottabyte = 1 Brontobyte
To make sure that I had all my info straight, I read this chart to my hubby. He pointed out that I forgot to include bits. The only bits I know about are Kibbles 'n' Bits. That's not the bits he's talking about. In his lingo, 8 bits equals one byte.
I don't think I'll ever use this info again. But typing the word "petabyte" made me hungry for my favorite restraunt...Pita Inn. I want a petabyte of hummus...yum!
I love your humor on such a dry...I mean dry subject. Sorry to your dh...but I just cannot get into that lingo! Thank goodness he can!
ReplyDeleteOh...BTW...I did notice the date of the post. hehe!
Yes, It is a dry,dry subject. I know this post sounded like it but really my hubby isn't that much of a computer geek.
ReplyDeleteThe post date...yup, I'm behind again and decided to just return to posting daily and move the others out of draft as time permits.