How Big Is A Petabyte Exabyte Zettabyte Or A Yottabyte?

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Peta- means 1,000,000,000,000,000;

a Petabyte is 1,000 Terabytes

. Exa- means 1,000,000,000,000,000,000; an Exabyte is 1,000 Petabytes. Zetta- means 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000; a Zettabyte is 1,000 Exabytes. Yotta- means 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000; a Yottabyte is 1,000 Zettabytes.

Is a petabyte bigger than a yottabyte?

As of 2018, the yottabyte (1 septillion bytes) was

the largest approved standard size of storage

by the System of Units (SI). For context, there are 1,000 terabytes in a petabyte, 1,000 petabytes in an exabyte, 1,000 exabytes in a zettabyte and 1,000 zettabytes in a yottabyte.

How big is the petabyte?

Metric Exponent Size (bytes) Megabyte (MB) 1024^2 1,048,576 Gigabyte (GB) 1024^3 1,073,741,824 Terabyte (TB) 1024^4 1,099,511,627,776 Petabyte (PB)

1024^5


1,125,899,906,842,624

How big is a yottabyte?

The yottabyte is

about 1 septillion bytes —

or, as an integer, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. The storage volume is equivalent to a quadrillion gigabytes (GB) or a million trillion megabytes. By comparison, the average song file is around 10 MB to 30 MB.

How many zeros does a petabyte have?

A billion GB is an Exabyte (a 1 followed by 18 zeros), i.e.,

1000 petabytes

or 1,000,000 terabytes.

What is 1000 GB called?


One terabyte (TB)

is about 1000 gigabytes, or roughly 1 trillion bytes.

What is 1000 Zetabytes?

Unit Value Example Zettabytes (ZB)

1,000 Exabytes

as much information as there are grains of sand on all the world’s beaches

What is a Brontobyte?

(BRONTOsaurus BYTE)

One quadrillion terabytes

. Although the term was coined years ago, and the collective capacity of all the storage drives in the world are nowhere near one brontobyte, we like to think in digital extremes in this industry. After the brontobyte comes “geopbyte” (a thousand brontobytes).

What is a Tigabyte?


1 TB equals 1,000 gigabytes (GB) or 1,000,000 megabytes (MB)

. Now, let’s compare that to physical storage devices we use everyday. Compared to the average smartphone, 1 TB of storage is the same as roughly 8 (128 GB) iPhones or Samsung Galaxy devices.

Is there anything bigger than a Geopbyte?

One

brontobyte

is equal to one quadrillion terabytes. And a brontobyte is smaller than a geopbyte. A thousand brontobytes equal to one geopbyte.

Does a zettabyte exist?

Decimal Value Metric 1000 kB kilobyte 1000

2

MB megabyte
1000

3

GB gigabyte

Does anyone have a Yottabyte?

(A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.) Wired is referring to the fact that a

yottabyte is the largest storage term we have

, not that septillion is the highest numerical descriptor for a large figure in existence, if you were confused.

How many terabytes is a zettabyte?

One zettabyte is equal to a thousand exabytes,

a billion terabytes

, or a trillion gigabytes.

What’s bigger than an exabyte?

The prefix after tera- should be 1000

5

, or peta-. Therefore, after terabyte comes petabyte. Next is exabyte, then

zettabyte

and yottabyte.

Which is bigger GB or TB?

A

gigabyte (GB)

is 1,024 megabytes. A terabyte (TB) is 1,024 gigabytes.

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Charlene is a software developer and technology expert with a degree in computer science. She has worked for major tech companies and has a keen understanding of how computers and electronics work. Sarah is also an advocate for digital privacy and security.