terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt 
: 1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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The breach, claimed by pro-Ukraine hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian collective Cyber Partisans, reportedly destroyed 7,000 servers and compromised 20 terabytes of data.
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Amanda Castro
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
For example, an iPhone 16 Pro Max, with one terabyte of storage currently at $1599, could cost nearly $2300 if a 43% increase were to pass to consumers.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
At about 20 terabytes every night, the amount of data gathered by Rubin Observatory in just the first year of the LSST will be greater than that collected by all other observatories combined.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
The attackers were reportedly able to take over Aeroflot’s critical systems and access terabytes of internal company data.
—Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
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Amanda Castro
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
For example, an iPhone 16 Pro Max, with one terabyte of storage currently at $1599, could cost nearly $2300 if a 43% increase were to pass to consumers.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
At about 20 terabytes every night, the amount of data gathered by Rubin Observatory in just the first year of the LSST will be greater than that collected by all other observatories combined.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
The attackers were reportedly able to take over Aeroflot’s critical systems and access terabytes of internal company data.
—Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
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terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt
: 1024 gigabytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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