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I got a very similar if not the same exact graphics card mid last year, and have been running it on my old Acer 21" LCD (I think...). It works fine, but I'd really like to upgrade myself.|
Originally Posted by psycheout
I just got this graphics card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150447) and want to figure out what I need in a monitor to show most of what it can put out. Not in a super hurry to find one due to stupid UPS losing my case so I am now waiting for replacement to ship to me(will not come till the 1st-5th if the estimate process time is correct) or lost one to magically appear.(oh and ordered on the 4th so just a tiny massive bit annoyed)
monitor I have off old desktop is an HP vs15. what percent of my graphic card's capabilities could this display? |
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Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
Actually, I seem to recall hearing once the term "googlebyte" is used to refer to the average amount of data that goes through Google in a month. However, checking it out just keeps getting me the googolbyte definition now. :/
Of course, either would be a crazy amount of storage at the moment. |
Especially when you consider that one Exabyte is considered enough to essentially upload all information about a person throughout the course of the entirety of their life. So if you could be rendered down for data, an Exabyte drive is what they'd store you on.
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Well, maybe 1.5 exabytes in my case.
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Funny thing I was just reading about a zetabyte file system (ZFS). A zetabyte is 1000x bigger than an exabyte.
64-bit address space is about 18.44 exabytes.
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Yep. A bunch of filesystems slaved together to create one massive space to dump files.|
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Funny thing I was just reading about a zetabyte file system (ZFS). A zetabyte is 1000x bigger than an exabyte.
64-bit address space is about 18.44 exabytes. |
It's not new. Been around for years.
I'm talking about a singular storage device.
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They're not different. People just use them incorrectly. A gigabyte NEVER means 1000 megabytes. Use the correct terminology:|
Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Okay: For memory:
1 Byte = 8 Bits kBbyte = 1024 Bytes (2^10) mByte = 1024 kBytes (2^20)(1,048,576 Bytes) gByte = 1024 mBytes (2^30)(1,073,741,824 Bytes) tByte = 1024 gBytes (2^40)(1,099,511,627,776 Bytes) pByte = 1024 tBytes (2^50)(1,125,899,906,842,624 Bytes) For hard drives. kByte = 1000 Bytes (10^3) mByte = 1000 kBytes (10^6)(1,000,000 Bytes) gByte = 1000 mBytes (10^9)(1,000,000,000 Bytes) tByte = 1000 gBytes (10^12)(1,000,000,000,000 Bytes) pByte = 1000 tBytes) (10^15)(1,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes) Why are they different?... |
nibble/nybble/hexit/semioctet/quartet = 1/2 of a byte
KB = kilobyte = 1000 bytes
KiB = kibibyte = 1024 bytes
MB = megabyte = 1000 KB = 1,000,000 bytes
MiB = mebibyte = 1024 KiB = 1,048,576 bytes
GB = gigabyte = 1000 MB = 1,000,000,000 bytes
GiB = gibibyte = 1024 MiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes
TB = terabyte = 1000 GB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
TiB = tebibyte = 1024 GiB = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
PB = petabyte = 1000 TB = 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
PiB = pebibyte = 1024 TiB = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes
EB = exabyte = 1000 PB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
EiB = exbibyte = 1024 PiB = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes
ZB = zettabyte = 1000 EB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
ZiB = zebibyte = 1024 EiB = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes
YB = yottabyte = 1000 ZB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
YiB = yobibyte = 1024 ZiB = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes
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These are pretty much used only by harddrive manufacturers and crappy tech journalists that like buzzwords. You've got half a century of 1 KB = 1024 bytes, and the vast majority of the tech industry still laughs at the word 'kibibyte', even harddisk manufacturers acknowledge that they're making things up, since at least until recently (haven't checked in a few years), they'd have to put a disclaimer on their box that redefines the units!|
Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
KB = kilobyte = 1000 bytes
KiB = kibibyte = 1024 bytes [snip] |
The usual retort is that they're using the SI prefixes incorrectly!!!! But that's not true if you remember these are really base 2 numbers. And why try to redefine a unit of measurement after its been in widespread use for, what, half a century? There isn't one.
So in short:
Kilobyte = 1024 bytes (the world), or 2 ^ 10 bytes
Kilobyte = 1000 bytes (hard disk manufacturers)
Kibibyte = a brand of dog food
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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That's been my take on it. HD manufacturers trying to play the rename game can go down a yottabyte of kilos of Parisian sewer water.|
Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
These are pretty much used only by harddrive manufacturers and crappy tech journalists that like buzzwords. You've got half a century of 1 KB = 1024 bytes, and the vast majority of the tech industry still laughs at the word 'kibibyte', even harddisk manufacturers acknowledge that they're making things up, since at least until recently (haven't checked in a few years), they'd have to put a disclaimer on their box that redefines the units!
The usual retort is that they're using the SI prefixes incorrectly!!!! But that's not true if you remember these are really base 2 numbers. And why try to redefine a unit of measurement after its been in widespread use for, what, half a century? There isn't one. So in short: Kilobyte = 1024 bytes (the world), or 2 ^ 10 bytes Kilobyte = 1000 bytes (hard disk manufacturers) Kibibyte = a brand of dog food |
Also, i thought a kibibyte was 1024 chibis.
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Because SI notation is inherently base 10. The usage of what are now commonly accepted SI prefixes predate computer science and extend all the way back to the inception of the metric system (1790).|
Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
These are pretty much used only by harddrive manufacturers and crappy tech journalists that like buzzwords. You've got half a century of 1 KB = 1024 bytes, and the vast majority of the tech industry still laughs at the word 'kibibyte', even harddisk manufacturers acknowledge that they're making things up, since at least until recently (haven't checked in a few years), they'd have to put a disclaimer on their box that redefines the units!
The usual retort is that they're using the SI prefixes incorrectly!!!! But that's not true if you remember these are really base 2 numbers. And why try to redefine a unit of measurement after its been in widespread use for, what, half a century? There isn't one. So in short: Kilobyte = 1024 bytes (the world), or 2 ^ 10 bytes Kilobyte = 1000 bytes (hard disk manufacturers) Kibibyte = a brand of dog food |
The problem is, they never should have begun tacking SI prefixes for the binary numbering system used in computers.
Again, it's a matter of "close enough" at the time and not enough forward thinking.
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That's a yotta bytes.| YB = yottabyte = 1000 ZB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes |
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Going by Wikipedia, the first instance of the suffix 'k' being both 1000 and 1024 was in 1959. The first patent containing the word 'kilobyte' was in 1969. The Macintosh OS manual in 1984 is the first operating system to consistently use the SI prefixes in a binary sense.|
Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
These are pretty much used only by harddrive manufacturers and crappy tech journalists that like buzzwords. You've got half a century of 1 KB = 1024 bytes, and the vast majority of the tech industry still laughs at the word 'kibibyte', even harddisk manufacturers acknowledge that they're making things up, since at least until recently (haven't checked in a few years), they'd have to put a disclaimer on their box that redefines the units!
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Proposals for using specific binary prefixes started as early at 1968 (one year before the first patent carrying the word 'kilobyte'). The IEC introduced unambiguous binary prefixes in 1998, which were put forth by the IUPAC in 1995. I would hardly call something begun in 1968 and fully realized in 1998 a 'buzzword'. In particular, because the distinction between jargon and buzzwords is that a technical buzzword is jargon that has become widespread and is used imprecisely. Considering that the binary prefixes are not widely used, and they are very precise and specific when used, 'buzzword' is simply the wrong adjective, period.
Also: the Linux kernel uses the IEC binary prefixes; CELNEC also adopted them as a standard for its member countries in 2003.
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Unless there's some massive revolution in storage technology, you won't see a drive that big in your lifetime (if ever).
Of course, either would be a crazy amount of storage at the moment.
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