No looking it up! How many of you know what a yottabyte is??
Until 10 minutes ago I had never heard the term yottabyte.
My son, his GF and I were sitting at our kitchen table. I was telling him I updated my original computer by putting a 32 meg chip in it to double its memory by increasing it to 64 megs.
I mentioned how far we had come to get to terabytes. He laughed and said look up yottabytes.
WOW!!! It is a number I cannot comprehend!!
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I had to go back and double check as I wasn't believing my memory!! I remembered correctly!!
A yottabyte is 1 septillion bytes!! That is a whole lot of zeros and a very long way from my original 32 meg computer!! I remember how proud I was when I stepped up to a 512 meg. OMG!! That was a half gig! It seemed like a miracle!😁
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Is it more than a Brazilian?
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1's and 0's.
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True story. Back in the day my brother-in-law was a systems analyst for IBM, Ross Perot and JC Penney, and worked with really big systems in huge corporations. I worked at a small hospital and was over the 3-person IT Department that managed the computer system. BIL told a story about his boss was going to be out of town and would miss a very important meeting about planning a major systen upgrade, so he wanted BIL to attend in his place. At some point somebody in the meeting said the word "gigabyte," and BIL spent the rest of the meeting wondering if that was a real word or did he just make it up to mean "a lot."
One difference in huge companies and small ones - a lot of the cogs in that huge machine are so specialized they don't have general knowledge.
As for the OP, we are just talking terabytes, so I'm guessing yottabyte is some multiple of terabytes
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Toolman286: 30165256276251/comments/30165269502875
Is it more than a Brazilian?
Probably more than 2 of em!!
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I love them Yodabites. May the force be with you!
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Toolman286: 30165256276251/comments/30165269502875
Is it more than a Brazilian?
Well done, indeed. @Toolman286
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Sounds like the name of a candy bar sold by Jeff Foxworthy.
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Now I know where the expression, "Yotta, Yotta, Yotta" came from!
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I started with a Radio Shack TRS-80. A whopping 16 kilobytes of memory and you had to type in your Basic program in entirety every time before you could run it. Or have your programs on cassette tape to be loaded that way. An 8-bit processor. Then I got an IBM PC for $1200 (when gas was 50 cents a gallon) that had two five-inch floppy drives. One held your program disc and the other was the only storage for your files. No hard drives.
I have not had to write code since the RS-80, thank goodness.
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After looking up the yottabyte I learned this morning that there is an unofficial unit of measure now that's called the brontobyte. It's the equivalent of 1,024 yottabytes. That's a whole lot of pictures on your phone! I guess for all the knowledge in the Known Universe you'd need a goopbyte.
I really don't think any of this will affect me in any way.
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The way things are going our national debt should hit a yottabyte number of dollars pretty soon.
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Yottabyte, is it when this guy sinks his teeth into something?
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I have seen a few deer carcusses that have been Yotebit...........
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A yottabyte is a 1, followed by 15 zeros!!!
1,000,000,000,000.000!!
That is a really, really big number!!
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24 zeros... not 15. so ya it is a few more the the blondes 2 Brazilians...
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1^24 Is equal to,
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Never heard of yottabyte until today.
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We've come a long way since Bill Gates said that you could type the rest of your life and never fill up a gigabyte of hard drive space.
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