petabyte

Definitions

1. One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes.
2. A pebibyte.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file⟳ cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.”

“The Hadron Collider has gone from producing 320 terabytes of data a week to a petabyte a second. In short, it has been said that the total amount of data created worldwide in 2011 was about one zetabyte^([sic]) (or 1,000,000 petabytes) and that this figure⟳ will increase⟳ by 50%–60% in each subsequent year.”

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