Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 zettabytes (280 bytes).
- noun One septillion (1024) bytes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun SI One
septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes.SI symbol: YB. - noun computing 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes or 10248, or 280. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a
yobibyte .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabytes or 10^24 bytes
- noun a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes
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Examples
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If the intervening space could keep quiet, it was yottabyte per minute capable.
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"We will have to go to the yottabyte pretty soon".
PC PRO 2010
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And yet, one day we will look back at this figures and shrug, as we order a 4 yottabyte memory card to save a few hours of our life with our 5-senses brain impulse recording device.
Gizmodo 2010
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"We will have to go to the yottabyte pretty soon".
PC PRO 2010
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Exabyte (1 billion gigabytes), zettabyte (1 billion terabytes) and yottabyte (1 quadrillion gigabytes).
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"We will have to go to the yottabyte pretty soon".
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: As we approach the zettabyte (and perhaps even yottabyte) age, can value really be extracted from the voluminous data that is now in existence?
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As we approach the zettabyte (and perhaps even yottabyte) age, can value really be extracted from the voluminous data that is now in existence?
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The USA's National Security Agency is apparently building a mammoth datacentre to house its ever-growing automated surveillance data - up to one yottabyte of it.
OCAU News 2009
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"yottabyte era", which is equal to one quadrillion gigabytes.
zuccaciyecioglu commented on the word yottabyte
Anytime someone starts nattering on about their download speed, I just say that I can download 10 yottabytes in one zeptosecond. OK, actually, I just fantasize about saying this.
September 9, 2008
reesetee commented on the word yottabyte
Oh, go on. Then come back here and let us know what happened. :-)
September 10, 2008
rolig commented on the word yottabyte
Who gets to make up these prefixes? yotta-, zetta-, zepto-. They all sound like Marx brothers and sisters. How big is a harpobyte?
September 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word yottabyte
Haha! I've wondered that too!
Do you think a grouchobyte is bigger than a harpobyte?
September 10, 2008
rolig commented on the word yottabyte
I don't know, rt. It's louder, that's for sure.
September 10, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word yottabyte
Right, rolig. It's louder, but you can't actually understand anything it says.
September 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word yottabyte
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever hoid.
*eyebrow flitter*
September 10, 2008
rolig commented on the word yottabyte
Well, if you want it to be understandable, you'd need a zeppobyte, but then if you wanted it to get really crazy, you should use a chicobyte.
September 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word yottabyte
Chicobytes come with pointy hats, too.
September 10, 2008
rolig commented on the word yottabyte
Oooh! pointy hats!
September 10, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word yottabyte
Pointy hats! *chanting*
September 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word yottabyte
Pointy hats!
(And They call us low-brow.)
September 10, 2008
john commented on the word yottabyte
“And what is a yottabyte? I’m glad you asked.
There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte, a thousand terabytes in a petabyte, a thousand petabytes in an exabyte, a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte, and a thousand zettabytes in a yottabyte. In other words, a yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB. Are you paranoid yet?�?
TechCrunch, NSA Datacenters To Store Yottabytes Of Surveillance Data, by Devin Coldewey, November 1, 2009
November 2, 2009
reesetee commented on the word yottabyte
Similar to measuring fragments of seconds. :-)
November 3, 2009