Yobibyte (Noun)
Meaning
A unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The supercomputer's storage capacity was measured in yobibytes, making it one of the most powerful machines in the world.
- It's estimated that the global data volume will soon reach tens of yobibytes, further straining data storage systems.
- Yobibytes of information were generated by the space probe during its years-long mission to the far reaches of the solar system.
- A team of engineers developed a data compression algorithm capable of squeezing an entire yobibyte into a remarkably small storage device.
- Estimates suggest that a yobibyte of storage capacity will soon be necessary for large corporations to handle the exponential growth of big data.