One of my tables in my SQL database has a growth rate of two nibbles per nanosecond. I was wondering how many megabytes per day that is and should I be worried? My hard disk is 150 GB.
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A:
Two nibbbles == one byte. 1,000,000,000 bytes per second, or 953 megabytes per second.
Let's just say your HDD can't write that fast. If it could, it would be full in under 3 minutes.
Autocracy
2009-05-26 11:21:12
+25
A:
Wolfram Alpha to the rescue!
http://www61.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+many+megabytes+per+day+are+two+nibbles+per+nanosecond%3F
Lloyd
2009-05-26 11:21:23
Finally a use! +1 :)
leppie
2009-05-26 11:22:28
nice stuff :) +1
Yuval A
2009-05-26 11:23:01
*gasp* It says 1,000,000,000 is a gigabyte, not 953 megabytes!
Autocracy
2009-05-26 11:24:46
+1 to WolframAlpha! Math and text interpretation on the same place, great!
RMAAlmeida
2009-05-26 11:25:18
+1 just because that WA use case is so awesome ;-)
Eoin Campbell
2009-05-26 11:28:53
Cool, never knew this existed. If only I was still in school and had to do homework..
borisCallens
2009-05-26 11:41:41
Interestingly Google Calculator does the same thing and infers that you mean proper MiB (1048576 bytes) units! http://www.google.com/search?q=two+nibbles+per+nanosecond+in+megabytes+per+day
akent
2009-05-26 11:42:13
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A:
Google says: 1 nibbles per nanosecond = 476.837158 megabytes per second
In other words: Yes, very worried indeed.
Stefan Thyberg
2009-05-26 11:22:02