How large is 150 petabytes?

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Originally Posted by Kardan

I thought you were asking the question, and I was going to answer it and also be surprised that you didn't know yourself :P

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I was thinking exactly the same :P

Quite fascinating though, some nice comparisons. :)

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Originally Posted by Marketing

It doesn't say that.

It says there was 150pb of data to move from hotmail to outlook - as in EVERY users stuff

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My bad! Thought it seemed a bit strange

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Originally Posted by Kardan

Been used for years in all sorts :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

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Byte's aren't metric ;)

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Originally Posted by Catchy

My bad! Thought it seemed a bit strange

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Aha indeed :L

If they were giving users space they would be better saying 150,000,000 gigabytes to every user (afterall, no not geeks would have a clue about petabytes aha :P)

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Originally Posted by Marketing

Aha indeed :L

If they were giving users space they would be better saying 150,000,000 gigabytes to every user (afterall, no not geeks would have a clue about petabytes aha :P)

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this would be @scottish;'s dream

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Originally Posted by Chippiewill

Byte's aren't metric ;)

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I was just on about the prefix peta, not bytes :P

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Originally Posted by Kardan

I was just on about the prefix peta, not bytes :P

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Seems a bit silly to use something which usually stands for 10^15 to mean 1024^5.

Had never even heard of petabytes until now :P.

wow :o

WELL ISN'T THAT AMAZING!!