KB, MB, GB, TB, … EB????

KB, MB, GB, TB, … EB????

What the hell is an EB? I was looking through the contents of a 100 GB external hard drive and saw a rather large file:

Something tells me there might be a wee glitch in the operating system here. I think it’s time to format that drive and start over.

By the way, an EB is an exabyte, which if I’m doing my math correctly is about a billion gigabytes. No wonder the drive was full. Anyone know the name for a million gigabytes? A trillion gigabytes? A quadrillion gigabytes? Wikipedia does.

Posted in All, Technology on Jan 20th, 2007, 7:44 pm by David Schrag   

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