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yottabyte

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Noun1.yottabyte - a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabytes or 10^24 bytes
computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory
zettabyte, ZB - a unit of information equal to 1000 exabytes or 10^21 bytes
2.yottabyte - a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes
computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory
zebibyte, ZiB, zettabyte, ZB - a unit of information equal to 1024 exbibytes or 2^70 bytes


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At the pace at which unmanned aircraft and other technologies are being deployed, some sources are projecting that the total volume of data gathered could increase to the level of yottabytes (one septillion bytes) by 2015--a volume that the Defense Department's global information grid simply cannot store.
The quantity is so vast that new numbers bigger than a zillion like petabytes, exabytes, yottabytes and zenabytes have been invented.
Speaking volumes Kilobyte (KB) 1,024 bytes Megabyte (MB) 1,048,576 bytes (approx 1,000KBs) Gigabyte (GB) 1,073,741,824 bytes (approx 1,000MBs) Terabyte (TB) 1,099,511,627,776 (approx 1,000GBs) Petabyte 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes (approx 1,000 TBs) Exabyte 152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes (approx 1 million TBs) Zettabyte 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes (approx 1 billion TBs) Yottabyte 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes (Approx 1,000 billion TBs)
 
 
 
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