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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I need to ask why? and how do you end up at such a strange figure for the growth rate? – pipTheGeek May 26 '09 at 11:29
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Wolfram Alpha to the rescue!
http://www61.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+many+megabytes+per+day+are+two+nibbles+per+nanosecond%3F
Lloyd
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+1 to WolframAlpha! Math and text interpretation on the same place, great! – RMAAlmeida May 26 '09 at 11:25
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Cool, never knew this existed. If only I was still in school and had to do homework.. – Boris Callens May 26 '09 at 11:41
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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 May 26 '09 at 11:42
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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.
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Google says: 1 nibbles per nanosecond = 476.837158 megabytes per second
In other words: Yes, very worried indeed.
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