What short for terabyte?

[JEDI]

Now that Terabyte hard drives are around the corner, what's the short name for it?

ie: megabyte = meg
gigabyte = gig
Terabyte = Ter?

Ter just doesnt sound right...

 

[Seekermeister]

TB

 

[Baked]

You got TB.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

How come there isn't an abbreviation for byte???

kb
mb
gb
tb
pb
eb
Not sure what's after exabtye...

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: Baked
You got TB.

now whan you say you want that 10terabyte hd, do you say 10 TB or 10 ter? or say the whole word (10 terabyte)?

cause tb = tuberculosis to me

 

[acegazda]

wouldn't exabyte be hypathetical considering the most hdd's you can have are 15 in a server case and all if all those are 750gb hdd's, that's like 12TB... ??

EDIT: is 750gb the largest drive?

 

[Seekermeister]

Originally posted by: acegazda
wouldn't exabyte be hypathetical considering the most hdd's you can have are 15 in a server case and all if all those are 750gb hdd's, that's like 12TB... ??

EDIT: is 750gb the largest drive?

Not so much hypothetical, as forward looking...or a bit before it's time.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: acegazda
wouldn't exabyte be hypathetical considering the most hdd's you can have are 15 in a server case and all if all those are 750gb hdd's, that's like 12TB... ??

EDIT: is 750gb the largest drive?

How is 15 max? There are petabyte storage configurations available now, if you have the $$...

 

[alpha88]

I suggest that we skip terabytes, petabytes and exabytes and move on to yottabytes.

"Yeah, I've got a 50 yoda hard drive"


Another good option would be to switch to the binary prefixes, tebibyte = 2^40 (instead of terabyte = 10^12)

 

[nineball9]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
How come there isn't an abbreviation for byte???

There is. It's "B".

kb
mb
gb
tb
pb
eb

These are abbreviations for bits, not bytes which is what the OP posted about. (And the prefixes, except perhaps for "k", should be capitalized). A lowercase "b" indicates "bits" while an uppercase "B" indicates "Bytes"

Not sure what's after exabtye...

Wikipedia

 

[L00ker]

12 isn't all that impressive we (the company I work for) do that in a single 3U array... granted it's a SAN but still 12 isn't anything crazy now there are capabilities to get storage arrays up to 150pb currently (yes I put pb and it's not a typo)

 

[Seekermeister]

While that is impressive, it doesn't relate to most of us, because some of us are not in the IT end of business, and we shall never see anything like that at home or even in a small business. Right now, 12TBs is beyond our dreams.

 

[Enig101]

10 years ago, my family PC had a 3GB HD. 5 years ago, my college PC had a 40GB HD. Now 300+GB HD are easy to afford in a mid-range PC. In another 5 years I'm sure multi-TB HDs will be common in new PCs.

And if you are saying 10TB you just say "ten terabyte". You don't have to abbreviate things when you say them. But perhaps lazy people will say "tera", who knows?

 

[Chaotic42]

Just as long as that whole kibi, mibi, gibi stuff doesn't catch on. It's painful to read, and even worse when someone says it out loud.

 

[j00fek]

Originally posted by: Seekermeister
TB

 

[stevf]

agree to that big time - dont know who dreamed up that whole kibi, gibi stuff. The worst thing is they did to help avoid confusion, but the mega, giga, is so ingrained that switching to that painful to read and say system would cause even more confusion

 

[Atheus]

How about teras?

'I got a ten tera disk'

I'm sure something similar to that will catch on. No one knew how to pronounce the year 2001 back then, but now people have settled into 'twenty oh six' for the most part.

Originally posted by: stevf
agree to that big time - dont know who dreamed up that whole kibi, gibi stuff.

It's been around a long time, it's the correct form... but yea who cares. In normal conversation people know what you mean.

 

[Kelnoen]

Originally posted by: Atheus
How about teras?

Second.

UK use Terra

"you want the 500 gig or the terra machine?"

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Kelnoen

Originally posted by: Atheus
How about teras?

Second.

UK use Terra

"you want the 500 gig or the terra machine?"

I'll take the Earth machine.

 

[mayest]

Originally posted by: Atheus
No one knew how to pronounce the year 2001 back then, but now people have settled into 'twenty oh six' for the most part.

Really? I say "twenty oh one" when referring to 2001. Calling it "twenty of six" is just too confusing.

 

[Zepper]

There are Dual channel SCSI host adapters that can handle 30 devices and you can have more than one on a mobo.

Yup b=bits, B=Bytes.

TB is for terabytes. Except for ignorant immigration policies, Tb as in tuberculosis was a thing of the past in the States. You'll just have to live with two TBs and go by the context as always.

.bh.