Zettabyte
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Alternate Use |
Name (Symbol) |
Value |
| kilobyte (kB) | 103 = 10001 | 210 | kibibyte (KiB) | 210 |
| megabyte (MB) | 106 = 10002 | 220 | mebibyte (MiB) | 220 |
| gigabyte (GB) | 109 = 10003 | 230 | gibibyte (GiB) | 230 |
| terabyte (TB) | 1012 = 10004 | 240 | tebibyte (TiB) | 240 |
| petabyte (PB) | 1015 = 10005 | 250 | pebibyte (PiB) | 250 |
| exabyte (EB) | 1018 = 10006 | 260 | exbibyte (EiB) | 260 |
| zettabyte (ZB) | 1021 = 10007 | 270 | zebibyte (ZiB) | 270 |
| yottabyte (YB) | 1024 = 10008 | 280 | yobibyte (YiB) | 280 |
A zettabyte (derived from the SI prefix zetta-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one sextillion (one long scale trilliard) bytes. It is commonly abbreviated ZB. At this time, no computer has one zettabyte of storage.
Because of irregularities in the definition and usage of terms for byte multiples, the exact number can be either one of the following:
- 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — 10007, or 1021
- 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes — 10247, or 270 (the correct term for this measure is "zebibyte". See binary prefix.)
The Z in Sun's ZFS file system originally stood for zettabyte. The IDC estimates that by 2010, there will be 988 exabytes, just under a zettabyte, in all computer storage world wide.
