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The term "]" (YiB), using a ], is used for the corresponding power of 1024.
The term "]" (YiB), using a ], is used for the corresponding power of 1024.
To store a yottabyte would require a million city block size data-centers, as big as the states of Delaware and Rhode Island.<ref>{{cite web|title=The One Hundred Trillion Dollars Hard Drive|publisher=Gizmodo | url=http://gizmodo.com/5557676/how-much-money-would-a-yottabyte-hard-drive-cost | accessdate=7 March 2013}}</ref>
To store a yottabyte on terabyte sized hard drives would require a million city block size data-centers, as big as the states of Delaware and Rhode Island.<ref>{{cite web|title=The One Hundred Trillion Dollars Hard Drive|publisher=Gizmodo | url=http://gizmodo.com/5557676/how-much-money-would-a-yottabyte-hard-drive-cost | accessdate=7 March 2013}}</ref> If 64 GB ] cards (the most compact data storage medium available to public as of early 2013) were used instead, the total volume would be approximately {{gaps|2|500|000}} cubic meters, or the volume of the ]
When used with byte multiples, the SI prefix indicates a power of 1000:
1000000000000000000000000bytes = 1000 or 10 bytes
The term "yobibyte" (YiB), using a binary prefix, is used for the corresponding power of 1024.
To store a yottabyte on terabyte sized hard drives would require a million city block size data-centers, as big as the states of Delaware and Rhode Island. If 64 GB microSDXC cards (the most compact data storage medium available to public as of early 2013) were used instead, the total volume would be approximately 2500000 cubic meters, or the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza