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  • noun Plural form of petabyte.

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  • First, the proposed configuration would amount to 1.2 petabytes, which is a thousand times smaller than 1.2 exabytes.

    Boing Boing: December 28, 2003 - January 3, 2004 Archives 2003

  • "petabytes," a petabyte being a quadrillion bytes.

    Backlogs of History 1996

  • “If you had to store three petabytes of data and keep it online for the entire Internet community”

    Sun Crams the Entire Internet In a Box 2009

  • According to analysts IDC, the amount of digital information created and replicated rose by 62% in 2010 to nearly 800,000 petabytes, which, IDC says, would fill a stack of DVDs reaching from the earth to the moon and back.

    Filtering Profits Nick Clayton 2011

  • Jay R. Boisseau, director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (home to the Ranger supercomputer), is worried that high-performance computing, which deals with petabytes of data, will be left in the slow lane as providers upgrade their long-haul networks with an eye toward the less demanding consumer and enterprise bandwidth needs.

    Cloud Storage Could Mean Fat Pipes For All 2009

  • For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates into a total of 60 billion images and 1.5 petabytes of storage.

    Social Networking & Dawn of the Zettabyte Era 2009

  • According to analysts IDC, the amount of digital information created and replicated rose by 62% in 2010 to nearly 800,000 petabytes, which, IDC says, would fill a stack of DVDs reaching from the earth to the moon and back.

    Filtering Profits Nick Clayton 2011

  • It enables applications to easily scale out to thousands of nodes and petabytes of data.

    Cloudera CEO: Hadoop Will Go Beyond Web Apps 2009

  • Those selected would have their minds installed into a dense carbon nano-structure, capable of holding the petabytes of information that described their minds.

    365 tomorrows » 2010 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • For comparison, if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows.

    What is the Maximum Memory Capacity of the Human Brain? | Impact Lab 2010

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