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  2. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    The storage limit using the 48-bit LBA ATA-6 standard introduced in 2002. 1.6 × 10 18 bits (200 petabytes ) – total amount of printed material in the world [ citation needed ] 2 × 10 18 bits (250 petabytes ) – storage space at Facebook data warehouse as of June 2013, [ 11 ] growing at a rate of 15 PB/month.

  3. Units of information - Wikipedia

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    For communication throughput, a base unit of bit is common. For example, using the metric kilo prefix, a kilobyte is 1000 bytes and a kilobit is 1000 bits. Use of metric prefixes is common, but often inaccurate since binary storage hardware is organized with capacity that is a power of 2 – not 10 as the metric prefixes are.

  4. Byte - Wikipedia

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    The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. 1 byte (B) = 8 bits (bit).Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer [1] [2] and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures.

  5. Kilobyte - Wikipedia

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    In some areas of information technology, particularly in reference to random-access memory capacity, kilobyte instead typically refers to 1024 (2 10) bytes. This arises from the prevalence of sizes that are powers of two in modern digital memory architectures, coupled with the coincidence that 2 10 differs from 10 3 by less than 2.5%.

  6. Orders of magnitude (bit rate) - Wikipedia

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    2.7×10 7 bit/s Video data HDTV quality 10 8: 1×10 8 bit/s Networking Fast Ethernet: 4.8×10 8 bit/s Computer data interfaces USB 2.0 High-Speed (interface signalling rate) 7.86×10 8 bit/s Computer data interfaces FireWire IEEE 1394b-2002 S800 9.5×10 8 bit/s Computer storage Harddrive read, Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103Uj [7] 10 9: Gbit/s 1×10 ...

  7. Gigabyte - Wikipedia

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    As 1024 (2 10) is approximately 1000 (10 3), roughly corresponding to SI multiples, it was used for binary multiples as well. In 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published standards for binary prefixes , requiring that the gigabyte strictly denote 1000 3 bytes and gibibyte denote 1024 3 bytes.

  8. Binary prefix - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, a hard disk whose capacity is specified by the manufacturer as "10 gigabytes" or "10 GB", holds 10 × 10 9 = 10 000 000 000 bytes, or a little more than that, but less than 10 × 2 30 = 10 737 418 240 and a file whose size is listed as "2.3 GB" may have a size closer to 2.3 × 2 30 ≈ 2 470 000 000 or to 2.3 × 10 9 = 2 300 ...

  9. Timeline of binary prefixes - Wikipedia

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    The 16-bit mini, the Model 7/16, includes an 8KB memory unit in its basic configuration, and will be available for delivery in the first quarter of 1974. The single unit price of the 7/16 is $3,200.00. The 32-bit mini, the Model 7/32, includes a 32KB memory unit and will be available for delivery in the second quarter of 1974. The single unit ...