Posted by Eugene Volokh:
How Much is a Million Gigabytes?
[1]Slate reports that the Internet Archive's "main server farm" holds
"half-million gigabytes of compressed and indexed pages." A thousand
gigabytes -- or 1,024 gigabytes, to be precise -- is of course a
terabyte, which is roughly 1.1 trillion bytes. How much is 1,024
terabytes, or 1,048,576 gigabytes? I had to look this up, and I'm
pleased to report that it is a [2]petabyte. 1,024 times that is an
exabyte, 1,024 times that is a zettabyte, and 1,024 times that is a
yottabyte.
No, of course I'm just joking. Who ever heard of such a silly word?
Obviously, the proper meanings for all these terms are:
1. A trillion bytes = 1 trilobite.
2. One terabyte = the amount of data that terrifies you to think
about.
3. One petabyte = a tasty dog treat.
4. One quintillionth of a boy = 1 attoboy.
References
1. http://slate.com/id/2116329/
2. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=petabyte
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