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Petabyte

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-001522

A unit of digital information storage equal to one quadrillion (10^15) bytes, represented by the symbol PB. It is used to quantify the capacity of large-scale data centers, enterprise storage systems, and archival services. The related unit, the pebibyte (PiB), is based on powers of two and represents 2^50 bytes.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-001522
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectBits and Bytes
Record as JSON
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  "subject": "Bits and Bytes",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/petabyte/"
}

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