Everhart, Glenn
From:	carl@gerg.tamu.edu
Sent:	Saturday, December 12, 1998 12:15 AM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: Disk Farming
Jan Vorbrueggen <jan@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes...
}"Richard B. Gilbert" <76702.1567@compuserve.com> writes:
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}> Some farms are approaching the petabyte range!
} 
}Don't think so. That'd be a million terabytes.
} 
}	Jan 

No, it's only a thousand terrabytes.

10^3  kilo
10^6  mega
10^9  giga
10^12 tera
10^15 peta
10^18 exa
10^21 zetta
10^24 yotta

All of these are just the standard SI prefixes. (If you prefer, you can make
each a factor of 1024 bigger than the previous to get the computerese version.)

--- Carl