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snerbles
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The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder h...
Should be tebibytes (TiB) for the latter, though binary prefixes don't have much adoption outside of the software world.
http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
wlesieutre
on Jan 16, 2017
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Or inside of the software world, for that matter.
semi-extrinsic
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Huh? 1024^4 is how Windows defines a terabyte, accordingly that's what most people think a terabyte is. OS X was the first OS to switch to 1000^4 with Snow Leopard (2009). Different Linux system tools use either standard.
snerbles
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Referring the abbreviation of "TiB" versus "TB" for 1024^4.
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