zettabyte

zettabyte

(unit)

2^70 = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes = 1024 exabytes.

See prefix.

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zettabyte

One sextillion bytes or one billion terabytes. In 2017, Internet traffic exceeded one zettabyte for the first time. We create a lot of digital data in the world. In 2020, it has been estimated that more than 60 zettabytes of data were created or replicated, which is equivalent to 60 trillion DVDs. See zetta and space/time.

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