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Megabytes are absolutely the wrong unit for this amount of data.
nobody knows what an exabyte is so why would anybody use that?
We live in a world where finding out what an exabyte is takes all of 3 seconds. You really want to argue the standard for communication of information should be based on the most ignorant and unmotivated people?
looks like you answered your own question there bud
I don't know... I can't answer what you're trying to argue. That's your hill to defend if you want to.
How about billion Gigabytes, or million Terabytes?
at that point what's the difference?
They are smaller, more familliar numbers paired with more appropriate units that people have heard of
I guarantee you that most people still don't know what a terabyte is. gigabytes, probably...
anyway all I'm saying is that a headlines goal is to reach and be understood by as many people as possible so obviously they're not going to use something that nobody knows, like exa, peta, and terabytes.
I think most people have a general feeling for how much a megabyte is because most of the things that we deal with are sized in megabytes.
But a hell of a lot more people will know what a gigabyte is compared to an exabyte, even I had to think for a few seconds to figure out what scale exabyte was compared to what I know, and I work with computer hardware everyday.
yes, that's what i said
I misread and thought you said people wouldn't know gigabytes, I disagree that people won't know Tera bytes especially since most laptops seem to ship with at least 1TB drives these days.
Ditch exabytes, return to bytes