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I suggest we change the spelling to yodabytes and start naming subsequent prexifes after other Jedi. windubytes, kenobibytes, etc...

I propose quads with regards to Star Trek nomenclature[1], which are increasing by 4 steps between the byte steps.

1 quad = 1 terabyte (10^3^4 bytes)

1 kiloquad = 1 yottabyte (10^3^8 bytes)

1 megaquad = 10^3^12 bytes

1 gigaquad = 10^3^16 bytes

And so forth.

While in Star Trek no direct comparison between quads and bytes is ever explained, this scale seems appropriate.

Yoda would be the ultimate on that list too, bro.

After yottabytes come hellabytes.

Then hollabackbytes, then yolobytes.

That is just too funny...that would be awesome if they made that the next name.

SI stops at yotta.. but there are unofficial prefixes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_unit_prefix

Hella. Hellabytes.

Quick, coin it! I suggest Xottabyte. As a fallback tough we can always say Octilion Bytes.