If MB="meg", GB="gig", then TB="..." ?

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Given that 1TB and higher capacity hard drives are becoming increasingly common, it would seem natural that a colloquial shortening of "terabyte" will arise.

Not having come across any myself yet, I thought I'd put it to the floor - what have people come across?
 
If using the same logic as with megs and gigs, it should be "ter" but I hear tera quite often in spoken language at least. In Internet, people tend to use TB and GB as their are faster to type
 
Hellhammer said:
If using the same logic as with megs and gigs, it should be "ter" but I hear tera quite often in spoken language at least. In Internet, people tend to use TB and GB as their are faster to type
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That's cheating. I guess in Finland people say "kilo", "mega", "giga".

I think this is only a problem for English speakers.
 
"Tibs" would be quite amusing. I agree it would sound a bit like "tebibyte", but a lot of people use the terms interchangeably anyhow (incorrectly though, of course!)
 
TUB --- TUBS of data. Don't like the vowel logic? So what? TuBS. Got a TuB in my machine, in fact I have several TuBs of data on this thing.
 
What about just "T"? Example: I have 12T of data. It would follow how I speak of kilobytes. I have 63K of data.
 
lewis82 said:
63Kb or KB? ;)
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I know how it's spelled, but that's not how I hear it said. I was trying to get across the speech part of it, but that is difficult on a written forum. I guess I failed.

I rarely hear someone say someone say, "63 KB". They usually say, "63 K", regardless of the official abbreviation.
 
After terabyte, it's petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, and yottabyte.


bit=0 or 1
crumb=2 bits
nybble=4 bits
byte=8 bit
word=16 bits (in x86/32, It can also be 8, 32, 64, 128, depending on architecture)
dword=32 bits (or double a word)
megabyte=1024 bytes
gigabyte=1024 megabytes
terabyte=1024 gigabytes
petabyte=1024 terabytes
exabyte=1024 petabyte
zettabyte=1024 exabyte
yottabyte=1024 zettabyte
xonabyte=1024 yottabyte
wekabyte=1024 xonabyte
vundabyte=1024 wekabyte
udabyte=1024 vundabyte
tredabyte=1024 udabyte
sortabyte=1024 tredabyte
rintabyte=1024 sortabyte
quexabyte=1024 rintabyte
peptabyte=1024 quexabyte
ochabyte=1024 peptabyte
nenabyte=1024 ochabyte
mingabyte=1024 nenabyte
lumabyte=1024 mingabyte
holydogcrapbyte=1024 lumabyte
 
RawBert said:
After terabyte, it's petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, and yottabyte.


bit=0 or 1
crumb=2 bits
nybble=4 bits
byte=8 bit
word=16 bits (in x86/32, It can also be 8, 32, 64, 128, depending on architecture)
dword=32 bits (or double a word)
megabyte=1024 bytes
gigabyte=1024 megabytes
terabyte=1024 gigabytes
petabyte=1024 terabytes
exabyte=1024 petabyte
zettabyte=1024 exabyte
yottabyte=1024 zettabyte
xonabyte=1024 yottabyte
wekabyte=1024 xonabyte
vundabyte=1024 wekabyte
udabyte=1024 vundabyte
tredabyte=1024 udabyte
sortabyte=1024 tredabyte
rintabyte=1024 sortabyte
quexabyte=1024 rintabyte
peptabyte=1024 quexabyte
ochabyte=1024 peptabyte
nenabyte=1024 ochabyte
mingabyte=1024 nenabyte
lumabyte=1024 mingabyte
holydogcrapbyte=1024 lumabyte
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Your list is incomplete... Where does gigaquad fit in?
 
At first I was torn between "teg" and "ter," but saying "that's a 32 teg flash drive" just sounds more natural.
 
We want to get the 'r' in there somewhere, especially if we feel the need to distinguish between tebibytes (how much is that?) and terabytes.

So..."terbs"? "Tribs"?
 
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