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petabyte

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Exabyte VXA 320 119.00610
PacketLoader 1x10 1U w/remote mgmt 1.6/3.2TB, 68-pin LVD 800-722-8798
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pet·a·byte   (pět'ə-bīt)   
n.  

  1. A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 terabytes (250 bytes).

  2. One quadrillion bytes.

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Exabyte VXA 320 119.00610
PacketLoader 1x10 1U w/remote mgmt 1.6/3.2TB, 68-pin LVD 800-722-8798
www.widgetsinc.com/
Science Dictionary
petabyte   (pět'ə-bīt)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 terabytes (250 bytes).

  2. One quadrillion bytes. See Note at megabyte.


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Computing Dictionary

petabyte unit
2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes = 1024 terabytes or roughly 10^15 bytes. 1024 petabytes is one exabyte.
Google is estimated to store about 200 petabytes of data in about 25 data centers around the world.
See prefix.
(2007-09-13)

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