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		jdnier on Aug 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Look at HP's “The Machine” "to allow addressing up to 32 zettabytes (ZB)" -- I think that's the first time I've seen ZB in print. Wikipedia link: "1 ZB = 10007bytes = 1021bytes = 1000000000000000000000bytes = 1000exabytes = 1billionterabytes = 1trilliongigabytes."

bronson on Aug 29, 2015 [–]

ZFS was originally named the Zettabyte File System. Not sure why Sun changed it. The acronym doesn't mean anything now.

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