Data Robotics Drobo – 4 Terabytes here I Come! I wish. June 19, 2007
Posted by brbice in Cool, Geek.trackback
Ok, this is my weekly geek fix…
My first computer, that wasn’t handed down to me, was a Radio Shack Tandy with a 25 megabytes hard drive. When I purchased this computer, I immediately maxed out my ram with an upgrade to 8 megabytes and figured I wouldn’t need another computer for years. HA!
Yesterday, I was digging through my junk drawer and found a 16 megabyte SD chip and forgot they even came that small. My current one is 256 megabytes.
Today, I have computers and other devices that have 700 gigabytes collectively, give or take a byte or two. Who in their right mind would ever need a Terabyte let alone 4? And, by the way, you know what comes after Tera? The answer is Peta, then Exa, followed by Zetta, Yotta and Manco. This is as high as the Wikipedia shows, but my vote for next after Manco is Bicea.
Tera is 1 followed by 12 zeros - 1 000 000 000 000
Peta is 1 followed by 15 zeros - 1 000 000 000 000 000
Exa is 1 followed by 18 zeros - 1 000 000 000 000 000 000
Zetta is 1 followed by 21 zeros - 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
Yotta is 1 followed by 24 zeros - 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
Mancho is 1 followed by 27 zeros - 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
Bicea is 1 followed by 30 zeros - 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
Dude, I’ve already got 4 Biceabytes in my computer.
Very, very cool! That’s what I’d get if I could actually fill a drive. Mine isn’t that big by today’s standards, and it’s only about half full.
um, how do you pronounce that?