Petabyte meaning

pĕtə-bīt
petabytes
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A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 terabytes (250 bytes).
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A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 terabytes (250 bytes).
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One quadrillion bytes.
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One quadrillion bytes. Also PB, Pbyte and P-byte. In 2012, Facebook indicated that it stored 100 petabytes of member data. See Petabyte Age, peta, brontobyte, Hadoop, binary values, petabit and space/time.
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(SI) One quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB.
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(computing) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 10245, or 250. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a pebibyte. SI symbol: PiB, computing symbol: PB.
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One quadrillion bytes.
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Origin of petabyte

  • From peta- +"Ž byte.

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