Terabyte hard drives

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: Hammer
if you think that's wierd, i'd imagine you'd think petabyte sounds crazy.

Not crazy... though possibly delicious.

I'm leaning towards tera. Though dropping the A has been popular, I don't think it will catch on with tera.

I have 60 teras of porn.

 

[boredhokie]

Originally posted by: ducci

Originally posted by: Hammer
if you think that's wierd, i'd imagine you'd think petabyte sounds crazy.

Not crazy... though possibly delicious.

I'm leaning towards tera. Though dropping the A has been popular, I don't think it will catch on with tera.

I have 60 teras of porn.

Son, terrorist porn is nothing to be proud of.

 

[bonkers325]

a 300 teb hard drive

 

[timur]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Tibs

Tubs...

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
Seeing as Giga should be pronounced Jiga, I'm sure we can change the pronounciation some how and have it sound good.

Jiggawatts???

I have a 20 Jiggawatts hard drive?

 

[Battleangel3222]

I GOT IT..... Teabag.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: junkerman123

Originally posted by: dullard
It'll stay gig for a while. "I've got a 1500 gig hard drive." But eventually, that'll get too unwieldly. Eventually people will give in and say it properly, "I've got a 1.5 TB hard drive".

Of course, think of the rash of threads that we will have: "My 2.0 TB hard drive is only reporting 1.8 TB in Windows". Since hard drive manufacuters will continue to use the proper 1000^3 definition and Windows will continue to use the incorrect 1024^3 definition. The error will be a full 10% in the TB range.

Bah, why did you have to ruin my day with that...gd microsoft

It's not just Microsoft, pretty much every program does the same because it makes sense.

Bytes aren't even SI units, I don't know why scientists get their panties in a bunch because computer people mis-use their prefixes.

 

[Leper Messiah]

"Tee-Bee"

I only have 100GB of pr0n. My e-penis is small

 

[jtusa]

I'm almost to one terabytes worth of storage. One more harddrive and I'll be there.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: dullard
It'll stay gig for a while. "I've got a 1500 gig hard drive." But eventually, that'll get too unwieldly. Eventually people will give in and say it properly, "I've got a 1.5 TB hard drive".

Of course, think of the rash of threads that we will have: "My 2.0 TB hard drive is only reporting 1.8 TB in Windows". Since hard drive manufacuters will continue to use the proper 1000^3 definition and Windows will continue to use the incorrect 1024^3 definition. The error will be a full 10% in the TB range.

I hate you .

 

[RaiderJ]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: junkerman123

Originally posted by: dullard
It'll stay gig for a while. "I've got a 1500 gig hard drive." But eventually, that'll get too unwieldly. Eventually people will give in and say it properly, "I've got a 1.5 TB hard drive".

Of course, think of the rash of threads that we will have: "My 2.0 TB hard drive is only reporting 1.8 TB in Windows". Since hard drive manufacuters will continue to use the proper 1000^3 definition and Windows will continue to use the incorrect 1024^3 definition. The error will be a full 10% in the TB range.

Bah, why did you have to ruin my day with that...gd microsoft

It's not just Microsoft, pretty much every program does the same because it makes sense.

Bytes aren't even SI units, I don't know why scientists get their panties in a bunch because computer people mis-use their prefixes.

Plus, I don't believe this is a problem that Microsoft can be given credit for. AFAIK, it's the hard drive marketing that is in large part to blame. They should say XXXGB, but (XXX-10%) when formatted. Or something like that.

 

[AkumaX]

how about "i've got 2 terapatricks"

???

 

[Kalbi]

Originally posted by: boredhokie
Tigs. Besides, we can't say Tera, we're supposed to be fighting tera, not shoving it in our god fearin' sturdy red state PC's.

are you stupid? 45% of "red states" still voted democrat.

 

[EyeMNathan]

Just call it terabytes. It's only three syllables you linguistically lazy fvcks. Rawr.

 

[thomsbrain]

i could sure use a TB right about now. I never thought I'd fill 260 GB worth of drives, but I've done that despite deleting tons of stuff I wanted to keep. if i was rich, i'd buy that 1 TB network-attached-storage brick from Buffalo.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Plus, I don't believe this is a problem that Microsoft can be given credit for. AFAIK, it's the hard drive marketing that is in large part to blame. They should say XXXGB, but (XXX-10%) when formatted. Or something like that.

1) The formatting issue is another issue altogether.
2) I didn't say it was only Microsoft. I did say, we'll get a bunch of people complaining (and typically these newbies are using Microsoft).

 

[BoberFett]

Calling 1024 bytes of memory a *KILO*BYTE was around looong before Microsoft came onto the scene. Perhaps if nerds around the world were going to get their panties in bunch over the perceived incorrect usage of prefixes, they should have done it back in the '60s. Waiting 40 years pretty much killed their chances of changing computer vernacular.

 

[TGS]

Roffle, you should be the deer in the head lights look when you explain actual data size versus size on disk...

Tibs, opposed to TeeBee(s)

Pibs

Eibs etc...

 

[Icopoli]

Why don't we start thinking about exabytes while we're at it.

 

[TheNinja]

Another vote for "Tigs"

 

[vshah]

tigs for terabytes, and then "pigs" for petabytes

 

[dc]

i will call them my new girlfriends.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: Hammer
if you think that's wierd, i'd imagine you'd think petabyte sounds crazy.

What about exabyte?

60 EXs?

 

[Shawn]

when will we see terabyte hard drives? hopefully soon cause having 4 hard drives is annoying.

 

[nageov3t]

T / tera sound the most natural.

"I've got a 3T hard drive in my new rig," or "that drive is 5 tera's."

I can't wait to read the posts about people who had multiple tera drives in a RAID0 that died and had no backups because there was too much data on the drives :laugh: