terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt 
: 1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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Our customer research shows that in a typical real-world 10-petabyte enterprise storage environment, primary storage costs around $1,100 per terabyte annually, including hardware, software, power and staffing.
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Carl D'halluin, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
The observatory will produce about 20 terabytes of data every night, which will be transferred and processed at facilities in California, France and Britain.
—Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 19 June 2025
And computer scientists are finalizing plans for how to sift through 20 terabytes of data every night, which is 350 times more than the data collected by the vaunted James Webb Space Telescope each day.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 12 June 2025
The release also states that investigators seized extensive amounts of digital evidence, including terabytes of illicit data stored on electronic devices.
—Alyssa Cooper, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2025
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Carl D'halluin, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
The observatory will produce about 20 terabytes of data every night, which will be transferred and processed at facilities in California, France and Britain.
—Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 19 June 2025
And computer scientists are finalizing plans for how to sift through 20 terabytes of data every night, which is 350 times more than the data collected by the vaunted James Webb Space Telescope each day.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 12 June 2025
The release also states that investigators seized extensive amounts of digital evidence, including terabytes of illicit data stored on electronic devices.
—Alyssa Cooper, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2025
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terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt
: 1024 gigabytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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