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Terabyte

One trillion (10^(12)) bytes. Unfortunately, the term is sometimes also used to mean 2^(40)=1024^4=1099511627776 bytes. However, this usage is deprecated, and the term tebibyte is preferred for 1024^4 bytes.

See also

Byte, Gigabyte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Million, Tebibyte

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References

National Institute of Standards. "Prefixes for Binary Multiples." http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Terabyte." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Terabyte.html

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