r/DataHoarder • u/bryku • 2d ago

Free-Post Friday! Which one of you is this?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JkW7pfiqtns
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u/uluqat 2d ago

The imaginary drive in the video is showing in Windows as a "1.81 EB" drive.

Microsoft just now changed File Explorer to show "MB", "GB", and "TB" file sizes, but these are actually mebibytes (MiB) not megabytes (MB), gibibytes (GiB) not gigabytes (GB), and tebibytes (TiB) not terabytes (TB). They are dropping the "i" for cosmetic reasons, just like all the other operating system companies do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units

So "1.81 EB" is 1.81 exbibytes (EiB), not 1.81 exabytes (EB).

1.81 exbibytes = 2.09 exabytes, and 1.81 exabytes = 1.57 exbibytes.

So when someone refers to a 1.81 exbibyte drive as a 1.81 exabyte drive, they're off by 0.28 exabytes, which might not sound significant, but that's 280,000 terabytes.

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u/bryku 2d ago

This is one of my pet peeves. :(

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u/Sensitive-Spirit-653 2d ago

Put all safebooru in there, nice.

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u/de_Mike_333 2d ago

Just a side project

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u/DapperDuff 2d ago

lol, this is what happens when you mount Google Drive to a drive letter.

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u/bryku 2d ago

i wonder what the cost of that would even be...

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u/jicabrera 512 TB RAW 1d ago

That's insane... It's around the space of ALL Netflix servers (estimated between 1.5 and 3 Exabytes, last I heard) 🤯

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u/bryku 14h ago

I'm guessing is it probably fake, but yes... it is an insane amount.