Talk:Terabyte
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Why is this a seprate article??? —Noldoaran (Talk) 03:29, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)
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Origins of SI prefixes
66.32.123.29 commented on Wikipedia:Pages needing attention that the origins of the prefixes for terabyte, yottabyte and zettabyte are in some doubt. Particularly, whether 'tera' is derived from the Greek 'teras' (monster), or Greek 'tetra' (four), and similarly, I assume, whether 'zetta' is from the Latin alphabet 'zeta' or a distortion of Latin 'septem' (seven). Anyhow, dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com/) has septem (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=zetta) and octo (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=yotta) roots for zetta and yotta, but another site (http://guymal.com/techCorner/powers.shtml) claims that zetta and yotta were used due to a decision by the General Conference of Weights and Measures to use descending letters from the Latin alphabet, starting at the end (zeta). Anyone know the correct etymology for these? -- Wapcaplet 17:05, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- No, Latin for 4 is quadri. 66.32.113.34 17:18, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Oops, I meant Greek. -- Wapcaplet 17:22, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
In the history, as of this point, it keeps changing. An edit on July 5 by Heron says "it's from teras not tetra", but then, on August 2, 209.6.214.139 changed it back to saying it's from tetra. 66.245.22.210 16:47, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Raylu's opinion
I think it would be more convienient if we deleted all the pages and put them toghether (in a new one), as much of the content on the pages is similar or the exact same. --raylu 22:56, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
- What pages; can you make a complete list?? 66.245.99.122 22:57, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
"A typical video store contains about 8 terabytes of video. The books in the largest library in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress, contain about 20 terabytes of text."
Does this take into account compression? Both video and text can be compressed, the latter especially. Text compresses extremely well. 68.203.195.204 01:12, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
It shouldn't. The point is to illustrate the magnitude of the amount of data. While compression can reduce the amount of storage space it takes up, the actual amount of data remains the same. --Alexwcovington 08:35, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- You are right that the "actual amount of data" remains the same, but the problem is that this number, "the actual amount of data", is unknown and cannot possibly be known in practice. Knowing it would require finding the smallest possible program that can generate the data and proving that it's the smallest. (See algorithmic information theory.) Therefore the anonymous user's objection is quite valid: where do these "8 terabytes" and "20 terabytes" numbers come from? They must be either a measurement of uncompressed data or of some compression (e.g. DEFLATE) of it. --Shibboleth 21:59, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I removed the claim about the "largest library in the world" completey, having changed it already. According to the respective websites, the British Library has more items, but LoC has more shelf space. Either way, I think the "largest" claim needs qualifying if it is to be used and personally I don't think it is very helpful anyway (especially to non-Americans). It would be better to say "more text than the xxx million books in the LoC" or something similar. Bobbis 21:02, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
American trillion, Canadian...
Someone edited this article to say "million million, American trillion". Well, what is it in Canada?? In other words, American trillion, Canadian... 66.245.115.34 21:44, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- See trillion. --Shibboleth 21:49, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- So, shouldn't it then be "million million (English trillion)" or "million million (short scale trillion)" ? Ian Cairns 23:57, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- My last edit tried to address these points. Ian Cairns 12:30, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
European (please write the answer here)
Well, the UK is part of Europe - so this should be 'answers' rather than 'answer'. Alternatively: Continental European (please write the answer here). Ian Cairns 01:46, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- My last edit tried to address these points. Ian Cairns 12:30, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Size of Wikipedia
How large is the entire database of Wikipedia in terabytes as of this moment?? 66.32.244.146 02:34, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
According to Wikipedia Statistics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm) the grand total for all Wikipedias is just 2.3 Gigabytes. --Alexwcovington 09:16, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Are they even related?
How are file sizes and 0's and 1's related? I do not agree with the pages being merged.
- They are related in that a Terabyte is a measure of the amount of 0's and 1's. That said, I do agree they should not be merged. A terabyte is certainly a topic that can stand on its own as an article. A centimetre, metre, kilometre, etc... all have their own pages so why shouldn't a terabyte? — oo64eva (AJ) (U | T | C) @ 05:41, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
- Hence the question mark. All the smaller articles like pebibit should definitely be merged. See Talk:Binary prefix#Consolidate all the little articles and Talk:Binary prefix#We need a template for the little articles. - Omegatron 12:29, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
- Oh. Someone changed the merge template. It used to have a question mark after it for the bigger articles like megabyte. *sigh*... - Omegatron 12:31, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
Terabyte or Terrabyte
Both versions are used on the same page! Which is correct?
- Fixed Ian Cairns 10:06, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)