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Western Digital unveils 20TB OptiNAND hard drive, pledges 50TB to follow

Pascal Monett Silver badge
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Re: Old fart rant inside...

Ah, but it had 16Tb, as in tera-bits.

And, as we all know, there's 8 bits to a byte.

Plus there's the fact that marketing can't be arsed to calculate the kilobyte at its true value of 1024 bytes, it uses 1000 because if marketers knew how to count they would be beancounters.

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