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Noun: petabyte  'pe-tu,bIt
  1. A unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes
    "The cloud service offered petabytes of storage";
    - PB
     
  2. A unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes
    "The cloud storage provider offered petabytes of capacity to large enterprises";
    - pebibyte, PB, PiB

Derived forms: petabytes

Type of: computer memory unit

Part of: EB, EiB, exabyte, exbibyte

Encyclopedia: Petabyte