Discover the true cost and scale of data storage at the petabyte level, and why "cheap storage" is a myth for enterprises handling vast amounts of unstructured data.
1 Petabyte (PB) is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes while 1 Pebibyte (PiB) is 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes. They are not the same. These are two different systems, respectively: metric (10^n) and binary (2^n).
That image doesn’t include everything lol. You’re mixing things up.
That image shows a Petabit (Pb) and Petabyte (PB), we are saying there’s another: Pebibits (Pib) and Pebibyte (PiB).
What you’re showing happens with internet plans throughput (Petabit) and vendors disk size (Petabyte). What I’m saying happens when you compare vendors disk size (Petabyte) and OS total disk space (Pebibyte). A lot of programmers use the latter due to its most accurate memory representation.
Your table should use the proper units KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, … for the multiples of 1024 bytes and not kB, MB, GB, TB, … which indicate multiples of 1000 bytes.
i get your reaction and i’m sad to see that posts on lemmy get smug and nasty as with most of the internet :/
but tbt i was also about to post this link because i presume that you come from a country that doesn’t use metric units where it is common to work with mili/[ ]/kilo/mega/giga/… (each having a thousand more than the former) for different things like weight, power, you name it so that fact, as true as it is, appears to be common knowledge for people who grew up with it and we should be more positive about sharing knowledge as a community. in any case, i hope you still have a lovely day despite some of the comments/votes.
My fact is still accurate. You commented like I was wrong.
I am pretty sure they are just jokingly trying to blow your mind with a list of other measurements.
It just looks like they googled system of units and expected it to be the same as what I am talking about.
It is the same as what you are talking about. Giga and Peta are listed prefixes that are 1,000,000 apart in the chart.
Oh yes. 1 PB is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. 1,125,899,906,842,620 specifically. I didn’t click link. He responded like I was wrong.
He responded like you were posting unit definition and jokingly being worried you’d post all of them, e.g. TIL 1 kilometer is 1000 meters.
Terrible joke if so lol. That would be insane to list all of them.
1 PB is 10^15 B.
1 PiB is 2^50 B = 1024^5 B= 1,125,899,906,842,620 B
That is what I just commented lol.
No, 1 PB isn’t “specifically” 1 PiB.
1 Petabyte is equal to 1,000,000 gigabytes or 1,048,576 if you want to get technical. This is all that is being said here.
!confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world
There! You happy?! Since everybody wants to include everything.
1 Petabyte (PB) is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes while 1 Pebibyte (PiB) is 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes. They are not the same. These are two different systems, respectively: metric (10^n) and binary (2^n).
There. Since people want to include everything.
That image doesn’t include everything lol. You’re mixing things up.
That image shows a Petabit (Pb) and Petabyte (PB), we are saying there’s another: Pebibits (Pib) and Pebibyte (PiB).
What you’re showing happens with internet plans throughput (Petabit) and vendors disk size (Petabyte). What I’m saying happens when you compare vendors disk size (Petabyte) and OS total disk space (Pebibyte). A lot of programmers use the latter due to its most accurate memory representation.
Listen, the title was the only thing I was talking about. Then this turned into chaos.
Nobody, except you, was talking about bits.
1 Megabyte = 1000 · 1000 byte = 8 Megabit
1 Mebibyte = 1024 · 1024 byte = 8 Mebibit
Your table should use the proper units KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, … for the multiples of 1024 bytes and not kB, MB, GB, TB, … which indicate multiples of 1000 bytes.
Others mentioned bits!
i get your reaction and i’m sad to see that posts on lemmy get smug and nasty as with most of the internet :/
but tbt i was also about to post this link because i presume that you come from a country that doesn’t use metric units where it is common to work with mili/[ ]/kilo/mega/giga/… (each having a thousand more than the former) for different things like weight, power, you name it so that fact, as true as it is, appears to be common knowledge for people who grew up with it and we should be more positive about sharing knowledge as a community. in any case, i hope you still have a lovely day despite some of the comments/votes.
I appreciate your response.