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How to pronounce petabyte in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms pb
Type of computer memory unit
Type Words
Synonyms pb, pebibyte, pib
Type of computer memory unit

Examples of petabyte

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Large sequencing centers are planning or have installed petabyte-scale storage.
From the sciencedaily.com
Customers can start with a few hundred gigabytes and scale to a petabyte or more.
From the techcrunch.com
He says that currently DataSift is running over half a petabyte of storage.
From the techcrunch.com
It boasts a disc storage capacity of a petabyte, or a million gigabytes.
From the web.orange.co.uk
These companies can pay $1m for a 1 tonne data server, which can store a petabyte of data.
From the independent.co.uk
On the geek playground these days, you better have a petabyte if you want bragging rights.
From the usatoday.com
Google's servers overall process one petabyte of data every hour or so.
From the techcrunch.com
This innovation has the potential to provide petabyte-level mass storage on DVD-sized disks.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It takes only 1 petabyte of storage to hold 40 billion photos.
From the forbes.com
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  • A unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes
  • A petabyte (derived from the SI prefix peta-) is a unit of information equal to one quadrillion (short scale) bytes, or 1000 terabytes. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB. The prefix peta- (P) indicates a power of 1000:n* 1 PB = 1,000,000,000,000,000 B = 10005 B = 1015 B.
  • An absurdly large amount of data equivalent to a million gigabytes. For example, Google processes approximately 24 petabytes of data per day while Facebook processes around 24 terabytes per day.
  • A measure of memory or storage capacity and is approximately a thousand terabytes.
  • Is 2 to 50th power or 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes. Also called a pebibyte instead of petabyte, a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes and precedes the exabyte unit of measurement. ...
  • Although it can represent one quadrillion bytes (10^15),it usually refers to 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes (2^50).
  • A measure of data size. One petabyte is equivalent to 1,000 terabytes.