Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers

Re:Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data... by mdoms on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:13AM (#27744169)

Because an average reader knows what a terabyte because it's a common hard drive size. The typical reader doesn't know how to think about exabytes.

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Re:Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data... by serf on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:23AM (#27744209)

people deal with social media images and text more often than buying hard drives -- and that's (generally) handled in kilobytes.

my take : it's because numbers with lots of digits sell clicks easier -- up until scientific notation is needed, and then at that point the general readership can't fathom the number and generally doesn't care.

in other words, I bet 8,000,000 terabytes produces more clicks than '8 exabytes' and '6.4 x 10^19 bits' would have.

If I had been born a new-age journalist i'd have gone with 8,000,000,000,000 megabytes -- but only if that fit in the link/URL slug and headline for maximum click-bait exposure.

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Re:Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data... by cratermoon on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:46AM (#27744307)

How about "8 station wagons full of tapes"?

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Re:Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data... by nlclimber on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:14AM (#27745089)

Ireland covered in 3.5’’ HD floppy disks.

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