Definition of "petabyte" [petabyte]

• A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 terabytes (250 bytes). (noun)
• One quadrillion bytes. (noun)

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• "The Internet Archive has just installed its first Petabox, "a machine designed to safely store and process one petabyte of information (a petabyte is a million gigabytes).""
• "Do the math and you will see (a petabyte is 1024 terabytes a terabyte is 1020 gigabytes and so on) in order to just get 1 petabyte the hub would need 1024 users sharing a terabyte) I think anyone familiar with shares knows how unlikely this scenario is."
• "(A petabyte is the equivalent of a stack of DVDs stretching from here to the moon.)"