A terabyte (derived from the prefix tera- and commonly abbreviated TB) is a measurement term for data storage capacity. The value of a terabyte is based upon a decimal radix (base 10) and is defined as one trillion (short scale) bytes, or 1000 gigabytes. This is a list of fictional species postulated in the 2003 Animal Planet/ORF and ZDF series The Future Is Wild. ... This article is about the unit of information. ... For the computer industry magazine, see Byte (magazine). ... An SI prefix (also known as a metric prefix) is a name or associated symbol that precedes a unit of measure (or its symbol) to form a decimal multiple or submultiple. ... // In computing, binary prefixes can be used to quantify large numbers where powers of two are more useful than powers of ten (such as computer memory sizes). ... In information technology there is sometimes confusion about measurement of bits and bytes. ... Tera (symbol: T) is a prefix in the SI system of units denoting 1012, or 1 000 000 000 000. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The radix (Latin for root), also called base, is the number of various unique symbols (or digits or numerals) a positional numeral system uses to represent numbers. ... One million million (1,000,000,000,000) is the natural number following 999,999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,000,001. ... Long scale is the English translation of the French term échelle longue, which designates a system of numeric names in which the word billion means a million millions. ... For the computer industry magazine, see Byte (magazine). ... This article is about the unit of measurement. ...

The number of bytes in a terabyte is sometimes stated to be approximately 1.0995 x 10¹². This difference arises from a conflict between the long standing tradition of using binary prefixes and base 2 in the computer world, and the more popular decimal (SI) standard adopted widely both within and without the computer industry. Standards organizations such as IEC, IEEE and ISO recommend to use the alternative term tebibyte (TiB) to signify the traditional measure of 1024⁴ bytes, or 1024 gibibytes, leading to the following definitions: // In computing, binary prefixes can be used to quantify large numbers where powers of two are more useful than powers of ten (such as computer memory sizes). ... The binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, is a numeral system that represents numeric values using two symbols, usually 0 and 1. ... For other uses, see Decimal (disambiguation). ... Look up si, Si, SI in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A standards organization, also sometimes referred to as a standards body, a standards development organization or SDO (depending on what is being referenced), is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise maintaining standards that address the interests of a wide base of... The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is an international standards organization dealing with electrical, electronic and related technologies. ... Not to be confused with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). ... “ISO” redirects here. ... A tebibyte is a unit of information or computer storage, commonly abbreviated TiB. 1 tebibyte = 240 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes The tebibyte is closely related to the terabyte, which can either be a synonym for tebibyte, or refer to 1012 bytes = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Binary prefix. ...

• According to the SI standard and current usage, a terabyte (TB) contains 1,000,000,000,000 bytes = 1000⁴ or 10¹² bytes.

• According to traditional and binary arithmetic, a terabyte contained 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1024⁴ or 2⁴⁰ bytes. Ambiguity can be avoided by use of the standardized term for this quantity, the tebibyte.

The capacities of computer storage devices are traditionally advertised using their SI standard values. Look up si, Si, SI in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Terabytes in use

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• Wal-Mart's data warehouse in Bentonville, Arkansas contains 500 terabytes of data as of 2004.^[1] However, this is expected, as of the first quarter of January 2008, to have reached somewhere in the region of 9 PB. Note the presence of Moore's Law.^{[citation needed]}
• Second Life's total storage was estimated to consume 100 terabytes of server capacity in December 2007.^{[citation needed]} The amount of data is rapidly growing.
• The U.S. Library of Congress Web Capture team has claimed that "as of May 2007, the Library has collected more than 70 terabytes of data"^[2]
• Ancestry.com claims approximately 600 terabytes of genealogical data with the inclusion of US Census data from 1790 to 1930.^[3]
• CASTOR at CERN has 33,564,902 TB of physics data as of April 2008.^[4]

• YouTube.com offices hold over 45 terabytes full of user-submitted videos^{[citation needed]}.
• Apple's Mac Pro has a maximum capacity of 4 terabytes made possible with four hard drives.^[5]

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See also

• tebibyte
• terabit
• gigabyte
• petabyte
• binary prefix
• orders of magnitude (data)
• Terabyte is also the name of a fictional colonial termite that has become highly specialized in the documentary film The Future is Wild

A tebibyte is a unit of information or computer storage, commonly abbreviated TiB. 1 tebibyte = 240 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes The tebibyte is closely related to the terabyte, which can either be a synonym for tebibyte, or refer to 1012 bytes = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes... A terabit 1 terabit = 1012 bits = 1,000,000,000,000 bits (one trillion, long scale: one billion) The terabit is closely related to the tebibit, which is equal to 240 bits. ... This article is about the unit of measurement. ... A petabyte (derived from the SI prefix peta- ) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one quadrillion bytes. ... // In computing, binary prefixes can be used to quantify large numbers where powers of two are more useful than powers of ten (such as computer memory sizes). ... This is a list of orders of magnitude for data (or information), measured in bits. ... The Terabyte (transporter on bottom, gum-spitter on top) Terabytes are termite-like desert insects that were created for the TV series The Future is Wild. ... Families Mastotermitidae Kalotermitidae Termopsidae Hodotermitidae Rhinotermitidae Serritermitidae Termitidae Termites, sometimes known as white ants, are a group of social insects usually classified at the taxonomic rank of order Isoptera. ... The Future Is Wild was a 2003 joint Animal Planet/ORF (Austria) and ZDF (Germany) co-production, which used computer-generated imagery to show the possible future of life on Earth. ...

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