zettabyte

From zetta- +‎ byte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛtəbaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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zettabyte (plural zettabytes)

1. (computing) One sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.
   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cronos Station:

     Cerberus Scientist: I'm sorry, sir. None of Normandy's surveillance feeds have been responding since Shepard went rogue.
     Illusive Man: I want it back. Retry the remote lockdown protocols.
     Cerberus Scientist: After our last attempt, EDI flooded our server with seven zettabytes of explicit images. I think she was making a joke.

   • 2015 January 2, Fiona Graham, “Look-ahead 2015: Fly into the future and other predictions”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     Conservative estimates put data produced in 2020 alone at 44 zettabytes.

   • 2021, Giuseppe Arbia, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 5:

     For such quantities, it is necessary to introduce a further unit: the zettabyte which corresponds to 1000 exabytes. The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts the world's data will grow to 175 zettabytes in 2025.

2. (computing, informal) A zebibyte.

• ZB

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• zebibit
• zebibyte
• zettabit

Unadapted borrowing from English zettabyte.

zettabyte m (plural zettabytes)

1. (computing) zettabyte (one sixtillion bytes)

• Abbreviations: ZB

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

• zettabit
• zebibyte

Unadapted borrowing from English zettabyte.

• IPA^(key): /θetaˈbait/ [θe.t̪aˈβ̞ai̯t̪] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /setaˈbait/ [se.t̪aˈβ̞ai̯t̪] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ait

zettabyte m (plural zettabytes)

1. zettabyte

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