Breaking the 137GB Storage Barrier
Appendix B: | Big Numbers |
• 131 kilobytes = | 131,000 bytes |
a little more than 30 pages of text | |
• 33 megabytes = | 33,000,000 bytes |
more than 8,000 pages of text or 25 | |
• 137 gigabytes = | 137,000,000,000 bytes |
more than 100,000 books, or the contents of a good library | |
• 2.2 terabytes = | 2,200,000,000,000 bytes |
almost 2,000,000 books, or the about content of the Library of Congress
•144 petabytes = 144,000,000,000,000,000 bytes 120 billion books – (more than all that man has written)
•9.4 zettabytes = 9,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
Appendix C: | Resources |
•Maxtor “Big Drive” web site for resource information: http://www.maxtor.com/bigdrive
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Quickview 300 80/100/120/160/200/250/300GB PATA |