• Mac@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    I guarantee you that most people still don’t know what a terabyte is. gigabytes, probably…

    anyway all I’m saying is that a headlines goal is to reach and be understood by as many people as possible so obviously they’re not going to use something that nobody knows, like exa, peta, and terabytes.
    I think most people have a general feeling for how much a megabyte is because most of the things that we deal with are sized in megabytes.

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      2 months ago

      But a hell of a lot more people will know what a gigabyte is compared to an exabyte, even I had to think for a few seconds to figure out what scale exabyte was compared to what I know, and I work with computer hardware everyday.

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          2 months ago

          I misread and thought you said people wouldn’t know gigabytes, I disagree that people won’t know Tera bytes especially since most laptops seem to ship with at least 1TB drives these days.