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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.
by mdoms 5y ago
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.
- serf 5y agopeople 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.
- cratermoon 5y agoHow about "8 station wagons full of tapes"?
- nlclimber 5y agoIreland covered in 3.5’’ HD floppy disks.