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becomes bytes
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also
or .
0.00% of binary amount. 0.00% less storage space.
0.00% of decimal amount.

Extrapolated release of consumer media:
Q4 2011
(Estimation formula subject to change.)


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109=1 billion= 1,000,000,000
1012=1 trillion= 1,000,000,000,000
1015=1 quadrillion= 1,000,000,000,000,000
1018=1 quintillion= 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
1021=1 sextillion= 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
1024=1 septillion= 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
1027=1 octillion= 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
1030=1 nonillion= 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
1033=1 decillion= 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
1036=1 undecillion
1039=1 duodecillion
1042=1 tredecillion
1045=1 quattuordecillion

3.5" Hard Drives
capacityannouncedreleasedby
1.0 TB
January 4, 2007March 19, 2007?HGST
1.5 TB
July 10, 2008August 2008?Seagate
2.0 TB
January 27, 2009???WD
2.5 TB
?????????
3.0 TB
June 29, 2010???Seagate
4.0 TB
September 7, 2011???Seagate
5.0 TB
February 13, 2014February 20, 2014Toshiba / LaCie (Seagate)
6.0 TB
November 4, 2013April 6, 2014HGST (WD) / LaCie (Seagate)
8.0 TB
August 26, 2014TBDSeagate
10.0 TB
TBDTBD-
16.0 TB
TBDTBD-
32.0 TB
TBDTBD-
50.0 TB
TBDTBD-
64.0 TB
TBDTBD-
100.0 TB
TBDTBD-
500.0 TB
TBDTBD-
1.0 PB
TBDTBD-
Converts to:
hebibytes
(290 bytes)
yobibytes
(280 bytes)
zebibytes
(270 bytes)
exbibytes
(260 bytes)
pebibytes
(250 bytes)
tebibytes
(240 bytes)
gibibytes
(230 bytes)
mebibytes
(220 bytes)
kibibytes
(210 bytes)
hellabytes
(1027 bytes)
yottabytes
(1024 bytes)
zettabytes
(1021 bytes)
exabytes
(1018 bytes)
petabytes
(1015 bytes)
terabytes
(1012 bytes)
gigabytes
(109 bytes)
megabytes
(106 bytes)
kilobytes
(103 bytes)
hectobytes
(102 bytes)
decabytes
(101 bytes)
bytes
nibbles
(½ byte)
bits
(⅛ byte)
The equivalent of:
LTO-8 compressed (32 TB) tapes
or...
LTO-7 compressed (16 TB) tapes
or...
LTO-8 uncompressed (12.8 TB) tapes
or...
LTO-7 uncompressed (6.4 TB) tapes
or...
LTO-6 compressed (6.25 TB) tapes
or...
[hypothetical] HVD (6 TB) discs
or...
LTO-6 uncompressed (2.5 TB) tapes
or...
LTO-5 uncompressed (1.5 TB) tapes
or...
Archival Disc (1 TB) discs
or...
LTO-4 uncompressed (800 GB) tapes
or...
Archival Disc (500 GB) discs
or...
LTO-3 uncompressed (400 GB) tapes
or...
Archival Disc (300 GB) discs
or...
LTO-2 uncompressed (200 GB) tapes
or...
Blu-ray XL (~128 GB) discs
or...
Blu-ray XL-RW (~100 GB) discs
or...
LTO-1 uncompressed (100 GB) tapes
or...
Blu-ray dual layer (~50 GB) discs
or...
HD DVD dual layer (30 GB) discs
or...
Blu-ray single layer (~25 GB) discs
or...
Mini Blu-ray dual layer (~15.6 GB) discs
or...
HD DVD single layer (15 GB) discs
or...
DVD-9 (8.54 GB) discs
or...
Mini Blu-ray single layer (~7.8 GB) discs
or...
DVD (4.7 GB) discs
or...
MiniDVD (1.4 GB) discs
or...
CD-ROM (700 MiB) discs
or...
Zip (~250 MB) disks
or...
Zip (~100 MB) disks
or...
3½-inch HD (1,440 KiB) floppy disks
or...
5¼-inch HD (1,185.5 KiB) floppy disks
or...
4K Advanced Format (4096 byte) sectors
or...
2112 byte sectors
or...
2048 byte sectors
or...
528 byte sectors
or...
520 byte sectors
or...
512 byte sectors
or...
Units of size:

each

download over 1 Pbps Ethernetor...
download over 100 Tbps Ethernetor...
download over 10 Tbps Ethernetor...
download over 1 Tbps Ethernetor...
download over 400 Gbps Ethernetor...
download over 100 Gbps Ethernetor...
download over 40 Gbps Ethernetor...
download over 20 Gbps Thunderbolt 2or...
download over 10 Gbps Ethernet/Thunderboltor...
download over 9.697 Gbps USB 3.1 (128b/132b)or...
download over 6.4 Gbps FireWire S6400or...
download over 4 Gbps USB 3.0 (8b/10b)or...
download over 3.2 Gbps FireWire S3200or...
download over 1.6 Gbps FireWire S1600or...
download over 1 Gbps Ethernetor...
download over 786.432 Mbps FireWire S800or...
download over 480 Mbps USB 2.0or...
download over 400.352 Mbps T5/DS5or...
download over 393.216 Mbps FireWire S400or...
download over 274.176 Mbps T4/DS4or...
download over 196.608 Mbps FireWire S200or...
download over 100 Mbps Ethernetor...
download over 98.304 Mbps FireWire S100or...
download over 44.736 Mbps T3/DS3or...
download over 12 Mbps USB 1.xor...
download over 10 Mbps Ethernetor...
download over 6.312 Mbps T2/DS2.or...
download over 1.544 Mbps T1/DS1.or...
download over 1.5 Mbps USB 1.xor...
download over 1 Mbps Ethernet.or...
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