Maxtor QUICKVIEW 300 - Manual (Page 64)

Breaking the 137GB Storage Barrier
Quickview 300 80/100/120/160/200/250/300GB PATA A-5
Appendix B: Big Numbers
• 131 kilobytes = 131,000 bytes
a little more than 30 pages of text
• 33 megabytes = 33,000,000 bytes
more than 8,000 pages of text or 25 300-page books
• 137 gigabytes = 137,000,000,000 bytes
more than 100,000 books, or the contents of a good library
• 2.2 terabytes = 2,200,000,000,000 bytes
almost 2,000,000 books, or the about content of the Library of
Congress
• 144 petabytes = 144,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
120 billion books – (more than all that man has written)
• 9.4 zettabytes = 9,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
Appendix C: Resources
• Maxtor “Big Drive” web site for resource information:
http://www.maxtor.com/bigdrive
• ATA/ATAPI-6 : http://www.T13.org