Definition of terabyte
:1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes;
also
:one trillion bytes
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Vorick says Sia customers can store data for as little as $2 per terabyte per month, an order of magnitude cheaper than Amazon's S3.
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At last year’s PGA Championship in New Jersey, AT&T customers used 2 terabytes of data – the equivalent of 5.6 million selfies.
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Another expert added that the entire Library of Congress contains an estimate of 10 terabytes of print material—
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The hacker or hackers claimed to have stolen an estimated 1.5 terabytes of data, according to Entertainment Weekly, which first reported the breach on Monday.
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Because what sounds like a vintage throwback fad is actually cutting-edge, as the two have teamed up to create a palm-sized tape that can hold approximately 330 terabytes of date.
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Cybercrime news site Hack Read reported Wednesday morning that personal employee information, several unaired episodes of Game of Thrones, and more have been leaked by the hackers who allegedly obtained 1.5 terabytes of data from HBO.
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Another expert added that the entire Library of Congress contains an estimate of 10 terabytes of print material—
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The company’s most bonkers machine yet can have processors up to 22 teraflops, memory up to 128 gigs, and as much as 4 terabytes of storage.
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1984
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