The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the big-data highway

Re:The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the... by semi-extrinsic on Monday January 16, 2017 @11:18AM (#13410811)

Are those Metric terabytes (1000^4), or in freedom units (1024^4)?

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Re:The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the... by snerbles on Monday January 16, 2017 @12:02PM (#13411172)

Should be tebibytes (TiB) for the latter, though binary prefixes don't have much adoption outside of the software world.

http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

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Re:The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the... by wlesieutre on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:29PM (#13411845)

Or inside of the software world, for that matter.

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Re:The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the... by semi-extrinsic on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:34PM (#13413228)

Huh? 1024^4 is how Windows defines a terabyte, accordingly that's what most people think a terabyte is. OS X was the first OS to switch to 1000^4 with Snow Leopard (2009). Different Linux system tools use either standard.

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Re:The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the... by snerbles on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @09:34AM (#13417838)

Referring the abbreviation of "TiB" versus "TB" for 1024^4.

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