terabyte

<unit, data>

(TB) A unit of data equal to one trillion bytes. A terabyte is 10^12 bytes or 1000^4 bytes or 1000 gigabytes.

A terabyte is roughly the amount of data in 117 DVDs (at 8.5 gigabytes each).

1000 terabytes are one petabyte.

(Note the spelling - one 'r'). See prefix.

Last updated: 2013-11-03

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