'puter help please

[La Huesera]

Can someone tell me what the next size of memory is after gigabyte? Thanks

 

[Spinaroonie]

Terabyte.

BTW, you don't move up after 1000. 1024 Megabytes makes on Gigabyte, not 1000. However... there is a difference between GigaByte and Gigabyte (one is 1000 and one is 1024, it's for marketing purposes to cheat you)

After Terabyte it's a Petabyte.

 

[RhumbRunner13]

Can someone tell me what the next size of memory is after gigabyte? Thanks

Terabyte = one trillion bytes.

Rhumb

 

[Spinaroonie]

Re: Re: 'puter help please

Terabyte = one trillion bytes.

Rhumb

Well... Roughly one trillion.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Terabyte.

BTW, you don't move up after 1000. 1024 Megabytes makes on Gigabyte, not 1000. However... there is a difference between GigaByte and Gigabyte (one is 1000 and one is 1024, it's for marketing purposes to cheat you)

Despite the capitalization, all increments of bytes are in a power of 2, so whatever the capitalization, a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes.

Drive manufacturers sell 30 GB drives which may or may not actually have 30 GB of usuable space, but it is generally not a marketing thing - it has to do with the overhead of formatting the drive, both hard and soft - so the actual usuable size can vary depending on how it is formatted. My 40 GB drive, after formatting, has 37.2 GB of raw capacity.

 

[La Huesera]

Thanks ever so much guys.

 

[Sixth]

I bet you regret asking now.

 

[La Huesera]

hehehe..nope, just glad for the help.

 

[LukkyKnight]

The next SIZE of memory?

Drive manufacturers sell 30 GB drives which may or may not actually have 30 GB of usuable space...

STG? She asked about memory. If she's putting in a TB of storage I want to be her sales rep.