yottabyte

Ten septillion bytes

A yottabyte is a unit of digital information equal to one septillion bytes (10²⁴), or approximately a trillion terabytes.

It's the largest standard unit in the metric prefix system for data storage.

No data systems yet operate at yottabyte scale—the term exists mainly for theoretical discussion of future capacity: The world's total data storage might reach a yottabyte by 2030.

magnitude

astronomical

Relating to outer space

vast · massive · incomprehensible · unfathomable · staggering · mind-boggling · quintillion · septillion · trillion · cosmic

storage

datacenter

Facility housing networked computers

server farm · backup · warehouse · preservation · infrastructure · capacity · volume · disk · drive · memory

data

big data

Enormous datasets analyzed computationally

dataset · traffic · growth · explosion · accumulation · generation · consumption · worldwide · annual · aggregate

scale

bit

Small amount or portion

  • nibbleSmall, tentative bite
  • prefixRoot-modifying front element
  • metricStandard of measurement

SI · binary · decimal · conversion · magnitude · order · power · exponential

computing

bandwidth

Data transmission capacity

processing · networking · hardware · mainframe · supercomputer · cluster · distributed · parallel · latency · I/O

Opposites
data magnitude

yottabytebit

Small amount or portion

byte · kilobyte · nibble · megabyte · gigabyte

Family

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