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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 ]
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"YB" redirects here. For other uses, see Yb (disambiguation).
Multiple-byte units
Decimal
Value Metric
1000 kB kilobyte
1000 MB megabyte
1000 GB gigabyte
1000 TB terabyte
1000 PB petabyte
1000 EB exabyte
1000 ZB zettabyte
1000 YB yottabyte
1000 RB ronnabyte
1000 QB quettabyte
Binary
Value IEC Memory
1024 KiB kibibyte KB kilobyte
1024 MiB mebibyte MB megabyte
1024 GiB gibibyte GB gigabyte
1024 TiB tebibyte TB terabyte
1024 PiB pebibyte
1024 EiB exbibyte
1024 ZiB zebibyte
1024 YiB yobibyte
Orders of magnitude of data

The yottabyte (derived from the SI prefix yotta-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one septillion (one long scale quadrillion or 10) bytes (one quadrillion gigabytes). The unit symbol for the yottabyte is YB.

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

See also

References

  1. "The One Hundred Trillion Dollars Hard Drive". Gizmodo. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
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Metric bit units
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