Zettabyte (Noun)
Meaning 1
A unit of information equal to 1000 exabytes or 10^21 bytes.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Synonyms
Meaning 2
A unit of information equal to 1024 exbibytes or 2^70 bytes.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The estimated global digital data storage capacity exceeded one zettabyte for the first time in 2010.
- In computing, a zettabyte is used to express large amounts of data in a more readable format.
- Google announced that it processed more than 100 petabytes of data per day, and projected a growth rate to zettabyte-level data processing.
- In June 2020, global internet usage exceeded 4 zettabytes per year.
- It's estimated that the total data storage capacity will reach several zettabytes by the end of this decade.