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Terabyte

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-001554

A unit of digital information storage, representing 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, or 10¹² bytes, in the decimal (SI) system. In the binary system, it is often understood as a tebibyte, which is 2⁴⁰ bytes. Modern hard drives and large-scale data storage systems frequently measure their capacity in terabytes.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-001554
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectBits and Bytes
Record as JSON 
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  "subject": "Bits and Bytes",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/terabyte/"
}

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