Comments on: Memory Sizes Explained – Gigabytes, Terabytes & Petabytes in Layman’s Terms

By: Faisal Ahmed

Faisal Ahmed — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:33:42 +0000

“The human brain reportedly has the ability to store about 2.5 petabytes of memories.”
I wish I could add some “RAM” on my memory!!!

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:45:46 +0000

hey guys
Counting is still ON……..
Petabyte ( 10^15)
Exabyte ( 10^18)
Zetabyte ( 10^21)
Yottabyte ( 10^24)

By: anthonymonori

anthonymonori — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:38:44 +0000

That’s a really interesting approach. Thanks for sharing.

By: anthonymonori

anthonymonori — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:37:10 +0000

Could you give me a source to this statement? I’m really curious to read more about the growth and the size of the internet. Thanks!

By: Dos Moonen

Dos Moonen — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:02:47 +0000

Please learn people the correct things. 1 KB = 10^3 bytes = 1000 bytes. Kilo stands for 1000. 1 KiB = 2^10 bytes = 1024 bytes. KB stands for KiliByte, KiB stands for KibiByte.

This goes on for MegaByte (10^6 bytes), GigaByte (10^9 bytes), TeraByte (10^12 bytes) etc. and MebiByte (2^20 bytes), GibyByte (2^30 bytes), TebiByte (2^40 bytes).

Thank you for feeding the confusion -.-

By: Evan Spangler

Evan Spangler — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:07:14 +0000

This is neat, and really informative. It’s neat to see things like how much data Google goes through every day.

By: DI

DI — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:17:07 +0000

nice ty!!

By: DI

DI — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:16:03 +0000

I have been wanting this info for a very long time ty ty!!!

By: Shehan Nirmal

Shehan Nirmal — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:22:57 +0000

no Raja, you are wrong. 1 bit can have only 2 instances (1 or 0). 8 bits are needed to make a single byte. It is a byte that equals to a char. For example: A (first English letter, capital) = 65 (decimal) = 01000001 (binary)… see..? A character is 8 bits long..
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/bit.html
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/byte.html

By: Doc

Doc — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:27:20 +0000

External HDs aren’t handled by the motherboard (unless they’re eSATA); FireWire and USB 2.0 and 3.0 drives are handled by a controller chip on the IDE-to-USB or SATA-to-USB “bridge” that makes them USB or FireWire compatible.

An EFI/UEFI firmware won’t have a BIOS; from what I know, it will use a bootloader to install 200MB or more of system utilities into a hidden partition on your C: drive, which will load a GUI (graphics and mouse) utility to set up the motherboard.

Here’s a YouTube video showing off an ASUS EFI (Intel) system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjPEkO_sUpk

By: josemon maliakal

josemon maliakal — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 06:15:26 +0000

very useful info

By: Fayz

Fayz — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:46:19 +0000

Wow! That’s a lot of data to process! :p

By: Seishun Kyosoukyoku

Seishun Kyosoukyoku — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:41:53 +0000

Thanks for Share …

By: Praveen pandey

Praveen pandey — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:30:15 +0000

here is the full list
1,0 = 1 bit
8bit=1 byte
1024 byte=1 KB
1024 KB= 1 MB
1024 MB=1 GB
1024 GB= 1 TB
1024 TB= 1 PB

By: GrrGrrr

GrrGrrr — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:09:02 +0000

how do i know if my mb has EFI?

I had bought a 3Tb ext. WD but Win7 failed to see anything beyond 2Tb.