Terabyte
Edit Watch this page Read in another language Terabyte The terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information . The prefix tera represents the fourth power of 1000, and means 10 12 in the International System of Units (SI), and therefore one terabyte is one trillion ( short scale ) bytes. The unit symbol for the terabyte is TB . Definition Edit 1 TB = 1 000 000 000 000 bytes = 10 12 bytes = 1 000 gigabytes . A related unit, the tebibyte (TiB), using a binary prefix , is equal to 1024 4 bytes. One terabyte is about 0.9095 TiB. Despite the introduction of these standardized binary prefixes, the terabyte is still also commonly used in some computer operating systems , primarily Microsoft Windows , to denote 1 099 511 627 776 (1024 4 or 2 40 ) bytes for disk drive capacity. [1] [2] ...
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