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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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At 02:09 PM 8/20/98 -0400, Stigers, Greg ~ AND wrote:
>Etc.? I keep wondering the name of the unit of measure for 1024 TB is.
>After trillion is quadrillion, so quaderabyte? Quadrega?

Following 'TERA' is 'PETA', 'EXA', 'ZETTA' and 'YOTTA'.
See http://www.ccsf.caltech.edu/%7Eroy/dataquan/ety.html

I recently had to find this out because the new release of DBGeneral (7.2)
is designed to logically handle upto 3,900,000 Gigabytes of data in a
number of key areas (yes, 3.9 million gigabytes, or 3.9 petabytes!).
Surely enough growth potential for IMAGE users for awhile... :-)



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