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To: Lost in New York who wrote (10393)	12/9/1997 4:10:00 PM
From: Jeffery E. Forrest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

What comes after terabytes? Doesn't it go up to FLOPS? As in gigaFLOPS and teraFLOPS?

To: Lost in New York who wrote (10393)	12/9/1997 4:14:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

That would be "exabytes", Then comes yottabytes and then zettabytes. each a third power of 10 greater than the previous. After zettabytes I believe that you can then begin to use such terms as "gazillion" or "bajillion" or even "God awful bunch of"

To: Lost in New York who wrote (10393)	12/9/1997 4:38:00 PM
From: Dick Smith	Respond to of 22053

Big, bigger, biggest, biggester... David Halliday wonders, "What comes after terabytes? Should be there in a few months." It's petabytes. Here's a nice chart: ourworld.compuserve.com

To: Lost in New York who wrote (10393)	12/11/1997 10:27:00 AM
From: Stewart V. Nelson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

David <<What comes after terabytes?>> Lottabytes?? Must be Petabytes From the EMC thread: EMC Becomes First To Ship A Petabyte Of Consolidated Enterprise Storage More Than One Quadrillion Bytes of Platform-Independent Storage Served HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1997--Highlighting its leadership role in the trend toward consolidation of massive amounts of data from disparate computer systems, EMC Corporation announced today it has shipped a record one petabyte of storage systems simultaneously connected to multiple heterogeneous computers and operating systems. One petabyte of information (one quadrillion bytes, or 1,000 terabytes) is the equivalent of 250 billion pages of text; 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets; 500 million high-density floppy disks; 83,000 digitally stored, feature-length movies; or 1.7 million CD-ROMs of information (graphic available at www.businesswire.com). regards Stewart V. Nelson