I don't understand the data on ArchiveTeam's page but, it seems like they have 35 terabytes of data (286.56TiB)? It's a lot larger than I'd have thought.

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wtallis 3 days ago | parent [-]

FYI, "TiB" means terabytes with a base of 1024, ie. the units you'd typically use for measuring memory rather than the units you'd typically see drive vendors using. The factor of 8 you divided by only applies to units based on bits rather than bytes, and those units use "b" rather than "B", and are only used for capacity measurements when talking about individual memory dies (though they're normal for talking about interconnect speeds).

Either way, we're talking about a dataset that fits easily in a 1U server with at most half of its SSD slots filled.

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jdiff 3 days ago | parent [-]

The binary units like GiB, TiB, are technically supposed to be Gibibytes and Tebibytes. Thought it was a bit silly when they first popped up but now I find them adorkably endearing, and a good way to disambiguate something that's often left vague at your expense.

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wtallis 3 days ago | parent [-]

In my experience, nobody actually says "Tebibytes" out loud; it's just that silly. In writing, when the precision is necessary, the abbreviation "TiB" does see some actual use.

	▲	hobs 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		If that's the unit, I am saying it, but yes - everyone gives me weird looks every time and just assumes I am mispronouncing terabytes but yet does not correct me.