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 terabytes (250 bytes).
- noun One quadrillion bytes.
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- noun SI One quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes.
SI symbol:PB . - noun 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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- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes
- noun a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Internet Archive has just installed its first Petabox, "a machine designed to safely store and process one petabyte of information (a petabyte is a million gigabytes)."
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Do the math and you will see (a petabyte is 1024 terabytes a terabyte is 1020 gigabytes and so on) in order to just get 1 petabyte the hub would need 1024 users sharing a terabyte) I think anyone familiar with shares knows how unlikely this scenario is.
To MPAA / RIAA - 2004
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(A petabyte is the equivalent of a stack of DVDs stretching from here to the moon.)
GigaOM Network 2010
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A petabyte is the equivalent of 223,101 DVDs, or over
Planet Sun 2008
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A petabyte is the equivalent of 223,101 DVDs, or over
Sun Bloggers 2008
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(For those of us who can't inherently imagine the vastness of a petabyte, IBM noted that a petabyte is the equivalent of
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(For those of us who can't inherently imagine the vastness of a petabyte, IBM noted that a petabyte is the equivalent of
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(For those of us who can't inherently imagine the vastness of a petabyte, IBM noted that a petabyte is the equivalent of
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(For those of us who can't inherently imagine the vastness of a petabyte, IBM noted that a petabyte is the equivalent of
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(For those of us who can't inherently imagine the vastness of a petabyte, IBM noted that a petabyte is the equivalent of
sillygoose commented on the word petabyte
Like, way really a lot of data.
A petabyte is 2 to the 50th power, or 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes.
Woah.
July 24, 2008
dontcry commented on the word petabyte
Is that totally vegetarian? 'Cause I'm on a new diet. I only hork up vegies now.
July 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word petabyte
Try soyabyte, a new measurement of vegan to the power of meat substitute. Divided by cabbage, which is a kind of lowest common demonimator.
July 24, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word petabyte
A petabyte is 10^15 bytes. The binary approximation of 2^50 bytes has its own name since 1998, the pebibyte.
September 10, 2008