As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.
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Petabyte
/ˈpɛtəbaɪt/
Synonyms for "petabyte" (10 found)
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10 entriescomputer memory unitdata capacity metricdata size descriptordata storage unitdata unitdigital unitmagnitude descriptorscale descriptorstorage capacity unitstorage size descriptor
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6 entriesdecimal petabytepebibytepetabyte-level backupspetabyte-scale analyticspetabyte-scale datapetabyte-sized dataset
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11 entriesdata measured in petabytesdecimal petabytepetabyte capacitypetabyte datapetabyte datasetpetabyte levelpetabyte storagepetabyte-scalepetabyte-scale datapetabyte-sizedpetabyte-sized storage
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The Hadron Collider has gone from producing 320 terabytes of data a week to a petabyte a second. In short, it has been said that the total amount of data created worldwide in 2011 was about one zetabyte^([sic]) (or 1,000,000 petabytes) and that this figure will increase by 50%–60% in each subsequent year.
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