What is A PetaByte?

According to

• Wikipedia: 
  • “A petabyte (derived from the SI prefix peta- ) is a unit of information equal to one quadrillion (short scale) bytes, or 1 billiard (long scale) bytes. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB. The prefix peta (P) indicates the fifth power to 1000”
• www.WhatsAByte.com:
  • "A Petabyte is approximately 1,000 Terabytes or one million Gigabytes. It's hard to visualize what a Petabyte could hold. 1 Petabyte could hold approximately 20 million 4-door filing cabinets full of text. It could hold 500 billion pages of standard printed text. It would take about 500 million floppy disks to store the same amount of data."

To get a better feel for the size of a PetaByte check out this info graphic from mozy.com. Part of the infographic is shown here (it’s pretty large so you will need to visit their site to see the whole infographic)

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