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petabyte

n. 1 (context SI English) One quadrillion (1015, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB. 2 (context computing English) 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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petabyte

n. a unit of information equal to 1,024 terabytes

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Petabyte

The petabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix peta indicates the fifth power of 1000 and means 10 in the International System of Units (SI), and therefore 1 petabyte is one quadrillion ( short scale) bytes, or 1 billiard (long scale) bytes. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB.

1 PB = = = .

A related unit, the pebibyte (PiB), using a binary prefix, is equal to 1024 bytes, which is more than 12% greater (2 bytes = ).

Usage examples of "petabyte".

We feel obliged to instantiate his personality as often as possible, even though you can only do so much with a couple of petabytes of recordings.