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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.

+6  A: 

You should be worried that you cant use a calculator!

leppie
+5  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
+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
Finally a use! +1 :)
leppie
nice stuff :) +1
Yuval A
*gasp* It says 1,000,000,000 is a gigabyte, not 953 megabytes!
Autocracy
+1 to WolframAlpha! Math and text interpretation on the same place, great!
RMAAlmeida
+1 just because that WA use case is so awesome ;-)
Eoin Campbell
Cool, never knew this existed. If only I was still in school and had to do homework..
borisCallens
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
+3  A: 

Google says: 1 nibbles per nanosecond = 476.837158 megabytes per second

In other words: Yes, very worried indeed.

Stefan Thyberg