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petabyte
One quadrillion bytes (one trillion kilobytes). Also PB, Pbyte and P-byte. See peta, binary values and space/time.
(unit)petabyte - 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes = 1024 terabytes or roughly 10^15 bytes. 1024 petabytes is one exabyte.

Google is estimated to store about 200 petabytes of data in about 25 data centers around the world.

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As data sets routinely grow into the Petabyte range (1 PByte = 1 million GBytes), the ability to move raw data or processed simulation results from disk to remote disk in an efficient manner becomes extremely critical.
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