International Standard of Units

This is for my own future records more than anything.  What comes after, mega, and giga and tera?

Kilo = 3 zeroes
Mega = 6
Giga = 9
Tera = 12
Peta = 15
Exa = 18
Zetta = 21
Yotta = 24

Mathematically, if anyone remembers from high school/college statistics class, anything with over 26 zeroes is same as infinity and with over 26 decimals is same as impossible... I think.

Now, when will I get my 1 PetaByte hard-drive!

25 years ago I remember a commodore 64 (that's 64 kilobytes of RAM)

20 years ago I remember buying an IBM computer with 512 kilobytes of RAM, with no hard drive. Running at the lightning speed of 4.7 hertz (not mega/gigahertz)

1 year later, I had a 20 megabyte hard drive.

10 years ago I think I had a pentium with something like a 250 megabyte HD running at 200 megahertz... Nothing that I recall in detail. But I do recall buying a 40 megabyte compact flash card for $100, and that was a good deal. (btw you guys remember the Iomegas Zip Drive? Watch a high tech movie from the 90s and they are all using it haha)

Now computers are easily running 3 gigahertz, with 1 terabyte drives, 4-8 gigabytes of RAM.

So in 2020 I think i'll get my computer that runs at 5 terahertz, with 10 petabyte drives and I bet i'll still run out of space.

No there was no research involved in any of this so numbers and facts are just based on my faulty memory... In case you read this far.

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Chris Hwang
http://www.offstandard.com/ (my blog)