User talk:Tjc1961

Hi,

I notice there is no page for data sizes, although there are articles for each data size, such as gigabyte. I'm no expert, but I'm sure there is someone out there that is. A page which lists them all with a breakdown would be useful.

The following information is extracted from http://isp.webopedia.com

Data Sizes
bit       = 1 or 0 (from binary digit)

nibble    = 4 bits

byte      = 8 bits

transmission    storage

kilobyte  = 1000 bytes       1024 bytes

megabyte  = 1000 kilobytes   1024 kilobytes

gigabyte  = 1000 megabytes   1024 megabytes

terabyte  = 1000 gigabytes   1024 gigabytes

petabyte  = 1000 terabytes   1024 terabytes

exabyte   = 1000 petabytes   1024 petabytes

zettabytes = 1000 exabytes   1024 exabytes

yottabyte = 1000 zettabytes  1024 zettabytes

http://isp.webopedia.com/TERM/Y/yottabyte.html

yottabyte is 2 to the 80th power bytes, which is approximately 10 to the 24th power (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes.

The name yotta was chosen because it's the second-to-last last letter of the Latin alphabet and also sounds like the Greek letter iota.

There is clearly room for additional data such as 280 for yotta, explanation of the reason for each description as with yotta above. I assume that yotta is the largest?! That there is no googlebyte?! ;-)

An introduction that includes an explanation as to why there is a difference between storage and data transmission.

I like the tables that are found under articles like byte, gigabyte etc. as follows

Quantities of bytes

SI prefixes Historical use Binary prefixes

Symbol (name) Value Symbol  Value Symbol (name) Value

kB (kilobyte) 10001 = 103 KB 10241 = 210 KiB (kibibyte) 210

MB (megabyte) 10002 = 106 MB 10242 = 220 MiB (mebibyte) 220

GB (gigabyte) 10003 = 109 GB 10243 = 230 GiB (gibibyte) 230

TB (terabyte) 10004 = 1012 TB 10244 = 240 TiB (tebibyte) 240

PB (petabyte) 10005 = 1015 PB 10245 = 250 PiB (pebibyte) 250

EB (exabyte) 10006 = 1018 EB 10246 = 260 EiB (exbibyte) 260

ZB (zettabyte) 10007 = 1021 ZB 10247 = 270 ZiB (zebibyte) 270

YB (yottabyte) 10008 = 1024 YB 10248 = 280 YiB (yobibyte) 280

Any ideas, is this worth doing?

Cheers,

Timothy.