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No 'milliards de milliards' translates to billions of billions. So that would be 10^18
by bnegreve 13y ago
No 'milliards de milliards' translates to billions of billions. So that would be 10^18
- beachstartup 13y agogoogle says 10^18 bytes in petabytes = 888.17 petabytes or basically a million terabytes if you round up. basically 3 million 1TB hard drives in raid 5 (1M x 3). you can probably fit a 500 1TB 2.5" drives into a single rack if you really try, and 2,000 racks can fit easily into warehouse-sized facility. (grid of 100 x 20 racks)
- chebucto 13y agoAck, you're right. My French teachers would not be impressed.
- romaind 13y agoHi, I wrote this post. I see that everyone is as confused as I was with the "milliards de milliards" :) "Millions of trillions" is the right way to say it in English I believe (if you don't want to go over trillions). I edited the headline a couple of minutes after publishing to correct my mistake. Sorry!
- IanCal 13y agoCould this be translated as "billions and billions" or "billions upon billions"?
- dendory 13y agoLiterally it says billions of billions, but in context it most likely means billions upon billions.
- mortehu 13y agoWhy? Petabytes seems like a more likely order of magnitude than gigabytes, doesn't it? eta: From the article: "capable of managing dozens of petaoctets of data, in other words dozens of millions of gigaoctets"
- stack0v3erfl0w 13y agoNo. The correct translation is "billions of billions"
- bnegreve 13y agoActually 'zillions' is probably the most accurate translation.