How big is a Gegobyte?

In the era of cloud, big data, smartphones and tablets, we've become used to talking petabytes, exabytes, even zettabytes.
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What is larger than a Geopbyte?

A thousand brontobytes equal to one geopbyte. And there are one thousand yottabytes in a brontobyte. What is a Yottabyte? One yottabyte is equal to 10008 bytes or 1024 bytes.
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Is a yottabyte the biggest?

A yottabyte is the largest unit approved as a standard size by the International System of Units (SI). The yottabyte is about 1 septillion bytes -- or, as an integer, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. The storage volume is equivalent to a quadrillion gigabytes (GB) or a million trillion megabytes.
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What is a Gegobyte?

Shilentnobyte (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) Gegobyte (10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
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Is a Brontobyte the biggest?

Since computers are processing more and more information, it's normal that digital units of measurement also keep growing. The biggest officially recognized data quantity is the yottabyte. After that comes the brontobyte.
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Data Storage Comparison



What is a Domegemegrottebyte?

About a quintillion bytes is an Exabyte. About a sextillion bytes is a Yottabyte. About an octillion bytes is a Xenottabyte. About a nonillion bytes is a Shilentnobyte. About a decillion is a Domegemegrottebyte.
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Do Brontobytes exist?

There is nothing in existence currently measurable on the brontobyte scale, but internet of things and sensor data are the most common potential uses for brontobyte-level storage.
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What is bigger than a terra?

Units larger than a terabyte include a petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte and brontobyte.
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What is the largest hard drive?

As of August 2020, the largest hard drive is 20 TB (while SSDs can be much bigger at 100 TB, mainstream consumer SSDs cap at 8 TB). Smaller, 2.5-inch drives, are available at up to 2TB for laptops, and 5TB as external drives.
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What is the largest data unit?

Terabyte (TB)

A terabyte, or TB, is the largest commonly available data storage unit. Few commercial-grade products will be sold that boast more than a few terabytes of storage at a maximum. A terabyte is equal to 1,000 gigabytes, and a tebibyte is equivalent to 1,024 gibibytes.
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How big is a Yobibyte?

A yobibyte is a unit of data storage that equals 2 to the 80th power, or 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes. While a yottabyte can be estimated as 10^24 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes, a yobibyte is exactly 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes.
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How big is a Hellabyte?

A Hellabyte is equivalent to 1 x 1027 bytes, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. After an online petition, Google adopted "hella" as a scientific prefix in 2010, and Wolfram Alpha adopted it in 2011. Usage of the term "hellabyte" has accompanied the advent of big data.
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How many yottabytes is the internet?

To get a better idea of how big the internet is, we can look at how much data is transferred on the web. As of 2016, Cisco estimated global internet traffic to be 1.1 zettabytes per year, with that number increasing to two zettabytes by the end of 2019.
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What is an Alphabyte?

Alphabytes is an educational app that helps kids learn their letters, the sounds letters make, how to write both upper and lower case letters, and how to spell a few words. The game has four sections: Alphabet, Trace, Spell, and Play.
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How big is a Domegemegrottebyte?

TIL the largest data size type is a Domegemegrottebyte (1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Bytes)
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What is after Dakttabyte?

Therefore, after terabyte comes petabyte. Next is exabyte, then zettabyte and yottabyte.
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Is there an Exabyte hard drive?

As Seagate explains, a zettabyte is 1,000 exabytes, and one exabyte is 1,000 petabytes. Each petabyte is 1,000 terabytes. A zettabyte is enough storage for 30 billion 4K movies, or 60 billion video games, or 7.5 trillion MP3 songs according to Seagate.
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Can a hard drive last 10 years?

Generally, a hard drive has an average life span of about five years, but an unused hard drive can last a little longer. A good hard drive, if not used, can last up to 10 years even.
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How big is the largest SSD?

If you're looking for something striking to supplement your SSD or hard drive collection, you've come to the right place. As of April 2021, the largest storage component you can buy is a 100TB solid state drive (opens in new tab) from Nimbus and it will cost you a cool $40,000 (opens in new tab).
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How many gigas is a mega?

1 Megabyte is equal to 0.0009765625 gigabytes (binary).
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Is tera same as trillion?

Tera (1 trillion) comes from the Greek word teras or teratos, meaning "marvel, monster," and has been in use since approximately 1947. The prefixes exa (1 quintillion) and peta (1 quadrillion) were added to the International System of Units (SI) in 1975.
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Is tera a billion?

Tera is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting multiplication by one trillion, or 1012 or 1000000000000 (one trillion short scale; one billion long scale). It has the symbol T.
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What is the smallest byte?

Computer Storage Units Smallest to Largest
  • Bit is an eighth of a byte* ...
  • Byte: 1 Byte. ...
  • Kilobyte: 1 thousand or, 1,000 bytes. ...
  • Megabyte: 1 million, or 1,000,000 bytes. ...
  • Gigabyte: 1 billion, or 1,000,000,000 bytes. ...
  • Terabyte: 1 trillion, or 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. ...
  • Petabye: 1 quadrillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.
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How do I get a yottabyte?

An exabyte will fill a four-story datacenter that takes up an entire city block. A zettabyte will fill 1,000 datacenters or about 1/5 of Manhattan. A standard terabyte hard drive costs about $100 today. It would cost $100 trillion to buy a yottabyte of storage.
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How much does a Geopbyte cost?

A petabyte of storage would:

Cost $93,662,499,307,520. Require a building the size of 10,814 football fields to hold the drives. Require 472 of the world's largest data centers to hold the drives.
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