Talk:Tebibyte

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Discussion about centralization took place at Talk:Binary prefix.

The scant information here ought to be merged with Terabyte and redirected. --Ardonik 22:48, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)

I think the ammount of data provided on this page is perfect for its task. The other page does not describe in sufficiant and immediate detail what a Tebibyte is, thus we should keep it as it is now.

--JFM 16:12, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Isn't the common parlance for this measurement 'terabyte'? I'd never heard of 'tebibyte' until I encountered it on the AMD64 entry. There, it was confusing. I understand a desire to be correct about things (though I question this 'push' by the IEC and Wikpedia editors to wholesale switch the terminology), but 'tebibyte' and 'gibibyte' simply aren't exactly prominent in the lexicon the way 'terabyte' and 'gigabyte' are. Perhaps I'm advocating scrubbing 'tebibyte' and its ilk from pages like the AMD64 entry and replacing it with the common usage. If/when the IEC is able to effect the change to the new terms in product marketing and common usage, then it could be switched back. -- 31 May 2006

I have to agree; outside of wikipedia, I have never heard of any of this "binary metric" stuff before. Are these terms commonly used outside the US? Because I am a professional computer programmer, and it's new to me. Goph42 15:36, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree as well; this binary metric stuff should not be forced into articles. This article even claims terabyte is deprecated, which, as far as I'm concerned, is nonsense. FWIW, I am also a computing professional. 129.215.63.115 13:11, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

"Terabyte" isn't deprecated. It means 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. — Omegatron 00:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

If you have a Sales degree (especially in the Hard Drive businees) a "Terabyte" means 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. If you have any other type of degree or are generally educated, a "Terabyte" means 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. Personally I think the whole KiB, MiB, TiB is pretty rediculus, and it's harder to speak. Oh and yes I'm a computer professional and no i don't speak L33t or lolcat either :) Goochi32 (talk) 05:53, 23 February 2008 (UTC)