Metric Bytes

[Night]

Not really, Youtube's total amount of video data was just short of 9 petabytes (9000 TB) as of 2011. That would still, however, be about a 10 millionth (1.3x10^-7) of the mass of the moon (74x10^21 kg) given the proposed kB:kg conversion.

Maths and science is fun! I was thinking about what sort of mass is involved in such a large amount of weight with this small physical area.Could a 1TB drive of such high density cause some issues to space, like absorbing light or creating its own gravitational field.

If all of Youtubes storage were in the same place I think you might see some weird effects going on with this sort of weight conversion.

[JaeDee884]

fortunately you have an SSD which is more optimised.
its 1kg per mb 

[Fetzie]

I was wondering why my PC was so heavy. I guess it wasn't the 2kg PSU or the 10kg case after all. It must have been the movies and music all along.

[Cruiseshipfan]

Centi- is used for drinks bottles and short distances. 0.75 litre wine bottles are usually labelled 75 cl (centilitre) and 1cm = 0.01m (or 10mm). A centibyte or a decibyte would be fairly pointless as nobody actually uses files that small nowadays anyway, and if you do, you just say "567 bytes", not 56.7 cB or 5.67 dB.

 

"decibyte" would also share its abbreviation with the more ubiquitous "decibel", leading to much confusion.

Centi prefix is not actually a proper prefix, It goes straight from milli, to the base unit. Centi is only used in cases where the base unit us too large and millie is too small. So for cm since we use it all the time it would be annoying using mm for everything so they added the centi. Technically its not correct, but it makes life much easier.  

[KaareKanin]

For anyone interested in further reading ;)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

[Hoppa]

You can have a 'centibyte' I guess or something (100 bytes) but no one uses it.

 

Kind of like millilitres(1mL)  and Litres(1000mL) (measuring liquid) we don't really use centilitre(10mL)

 

We use 'centi' in centimeter(10mm)