petabyte

From peta- +‎ byte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛtəbaɪt/

petabyte (plural petabytes)

1. (SI) One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB.
2. (computing) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 1024⁵, or 2⁵⁰. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a pebibyte. SI symbol: PiB, computing symbol: PB.
   • 2008 June 23, Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, in Wired‎, ISSN 1059-1028:

     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.

   • 2017, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Higher Education under Late Capitalism, Springer, →ISBN, page 82:

     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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• petabajt

peta- +‎ byte

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛtabajt]

petabyte m

1. petabyte

• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Unadapted borrowing from English petabyte.

petabyte m (plural petabytes)

1. (computing) petabyte (one quadrillion bytes)

• Abbreviations: PB, peta

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

• petabit
• pebibyte