Post: One Yottabyte = 1 septillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
09-23-2008, 01:00 AM #1
Mark360
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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Alright, First off I have been reading about storage capacity. I just got a little curious and though I would check out what is the highest capacity of memory. As of today, The highest capacity is a (1) Yottabye. Here is the definition of a yottabyte:

"A yottabyte (derived from the SI prefix yotta-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one septillion (one long scale quadrillion or 1024) bytes. It is commonly abbreviated YB. As of 2008, no computer has yet achieved one yottabyte of storage. In fact, the combined space of all the computer hard drives in the world does not amount to even one zettabyte. According to one study, all the world's computers stored approximately 160 exabytes in 2006, with nearly 1 zettabyte projected by 2010.[1] When used with byte multiples, the SI prefix may indicate a power of either 1,000 or 1,024, so the exact number may be either:

* 1 septillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — 10008, or 1024, or
* 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes — 10248, or 280.[citation needed]

The term "yobibyte", using a binary prefix, has been proposed as an unambiguous reference to the latter value.

128-bit processors could become prevalent when 16 exbibytes of addressable memory is no longer enough (128-bit processors would allow for 274,877,906,944 yottabytes of memory).

One study has predicted that in ten years the volume of online data accessible either on the Internet or on corporate networks is expected to reach a yottabyte.[2] The study refers to a yottabyte as 1 trillion terabytes. Source: Wikipedia"

I also heard it would take approximately 86 trillion years to download a full yottabyte. Even on a T-1 connection. Eek But that is also including the modern technology we have now. Maybe in the future we will be able to download a gigabyte like it's a megabyte. If you were to download 1 yottabyte, well you can't even say that is possible right now because the sun is a star and It will die in two billion years..... So yeah. Don't know why there is even a measurement higher than a petabyte. Anyway, what I am trying to say is as the world evolves in technology, when would you estimate that a yottabyte will be used.
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NanuGama
09-24-2008, 07:06 PM #11
NanuGama
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Thats alot of HDD Data
i meean like only a regualr computer can hold less than a quarter of 1 Yottabyte


Originally posted by SnakesNBarrels View Post
A yottabyte would never be used for home computers.. Possibly for corporations to hold data but that size of a harddrive would likely cost trillions of dollars.


Yo They wouldnt even be able to get the whole thing b4 dying
Last edited by NanuGama ; 09-24-2008 at 07:09 PM.
09-24-2008, 07:24 PM #12
elfmotat
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Originally posted by hockeykid69 View Post
noes it wont


yes it will:

Originally posted by another user
The sun is about 4.5 billion years old and it is estimated to still possess a 5-billion year supply of hydrogen (hydrogen is the fuel that drives nuclear fusion on the sun). Therefore, it is predicted that our sun will die in approximately 5 billion years.
09-24-2008, 07:28 PM #13
Bunch of nerds >.<
Just kidding.
A freaking Yottabyte HDD would be sick to own just for bragging rights and when people don't believe you, you take pics and your like, yeah wrecked. But I can't even image one yottabyte.
09-24-2008, 08:35 PM #14
Ronye West
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well im starting my download Happy
09-27-2008, 02:46 AM #15
Cobra-D
Smells Like Teen Spirit
well maybe one day in da future we will have a 5 yottabyte hardrive with 1 terabyte flash drive. you never know. all i knows is when we have that its gonna be sick
09-27-2008, 03:26 AM #16
Originally posted by magglass1 View Post
That's not even a sentence, so idk wtf you were trying to say. But my guess is that you were saying your connection is 100Mbps. That's actually only your network's connection speed, not your internet's connection speed. Don't confuse the two.


You called me an idiot when i confused the two -.- :mad:

Originally posted by NanuGama View Post
Thats alot of HDD Data
i meean like only a regualr computer can hold less than a quarter of 1 Yottabyte




Yo They wouldnt even be able to get the whole thing b4 dying


lol you have no clue what you are talking about quarter of one yottabyte lololololol
a regular computer nowadays is about 250GB HDD

meaning it is 1/250000000 of a yottabyte I think if I did my math right

Originally posted by D View Post
well maybe one day in da future we will have a 5 yottabyte hardrive with 1 terabyte flash drive. you never know. all i knows is when we have that its gonna be sick


damn i could fit a lot of porn on that Eek lol jk one comp would last you a lifetime though you could save complete 3-D videos on it ENDLESS Possibilities
09-27-2008, 06:52 AM #17
magglass1
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Originally posted by DirtyDudeOnline View Post
You called me an idiot when i confused the two -.- :mad:


Nothing personal, I'm just tired of people doing that.

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