Computer Understanding???

[Jbb]

Just for reference:
1 bit is a 1 or a 0
1 K is 1000 bits
1 Megabyte is 100 K's or 1,000,000 bits
5" Floppy held 1.2 mb or 1,200,000 bits
3.5" Floppy holds 1.4 mb or 1,400,000 bits
1 Gigabit is 1000 MB's or 1,000,000,000 bits
The average Hard Drive in a PC holds 20 GB's or 20 billion bits
1 Terabit is 1000 GB's or 1000 billion bits or 1,000,000,000,000
1 Petabite is 1000 Terabits or 1,000,000 billion bits or 1,000,000,000,000,000
Let's look at it from a materialistic world.
A 3.5" floppy is 3.5" square and 1/10" thick...no surprise there.
Now take enough Floppies to get 1 Petabite of data storage and you have a pile of floppies 1,127,344,877.345 MILES high.
1 PETABITE = 1,000,000,000,000,000 bits
divide 1 Petabite by 633,600 ( amount of Floppies to a mile )
and you get 1 Petabite = 1,127,344,877 MILES of Floppies or 4 orbits of Earth around the Sun or 3.9891...to be precise!
I won't even do a calculation for letter paper and ink!
Now if you think that much data cannot be, you are wrong.
Data Bases such as Goggle have 2 Petabites of data storage and need more.
God only knows what the Fed has!
I have a headache!

[leibniz]

and you get 1 Petabite = 1,127,344,877 MILES of Floppies or 4 orbits of Earth around the Sun or 3.9891...to be precise!
however, since you are being precise, :) and for those with more of a byte for the subject, accuracy prevails when noted that 1k actually = 1024 bytes.
For example, if you have 128 MB RAM in your machine, when viewing your memory total, you should see 128 * 1.024, or 131,072 KB of RAM while viewing your system properties.

[mickeyfinn]

1024 is the correct number. 1000 is the number that hard drive manufacturers to screw you into thinking you are buying something bigger than you are getting.:D :D

[BigBoyToys]

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