Terabyte

The terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix tera represents the fourth power of 1000, and means 1012 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.

1 TB = 1000000000000bytes = 1012bytes = 1000gigabytes.
1000 TB = 1 petabyte (PB)
Multiples of bytes
Decimal
Value Metric
1 Bbyte
1000 kBkilobyte
10002 MBmegabyte
10003 GBgigabyte
10004 TBterabyte
10005 PBpetabyte
10006 EBexabyte
10007 ZBzettabyte
10008 YByottabyte
Binary
Value IEC JEDEC
1 Bbyte Bbyte
1024 KiBkibibyte KBkilobyte
10242 MiBmebibyte MBmegabyte
10243 GiBgibibyte GBgigabyte
10244 TiBtebibyte –
10245 PiBpebibyte –
10246 EiBexbibyte –
10247 ZiBzebibyte –
10248 YiByobibyte –
Orders of magnitude of data

A related unit, the tebibyte (TiB), using a binary prefix, is equal to 10244 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 1099511627776 (10244 or 240) bytes for disk drive capacity.[1][2]

History

The prefix tera was assigned in the international SI system of weights and measures in 1960. It is derived from the Greek word τέρας teras, meaning "monster".[3], but there is clearly also a connotation with the Greek word tetra, meaning "four", similar to the subsequent prefix names.

Early usage of the word terabyte in computer science include:

Illustrative usage examples

Examples of the use of terabyte to describe data sizes in different fields are:

  • Library data: The U.S. Library of Congress Web Capture team claims that as of March 2014 the library had "collected about 525 terabytes of web archive data" and that it was adding about 5 terabytes per month ("one terabyte = 1,024 gigabytes").[10]
  • Computer hardware: Hitachi introduced the world's first one terabyte hard disk drive in 2007 (1 terabyte = 1,000 gigabytes).[11]
  • SD card: Micron and SanDisk unveiled their microSDXC cards of 1 TB capacity, in February 2019. September 2016 Western Digital (SanDisk) announced that a prototype of the first 1 TB SDXC card will be demonstrated at Photokina.

See also
  • Orders of magnitude (data)

References
  1. How operating systems report drive capacity, Seagate Inc.
  2. "Windows disk space using TB as a binary value, from Seagate.com". Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  3. C. Upward, G. Davidson, The History of English Spelling, Wiley-Blackwell (2011)
  4. Ishigame, Masaaki (12 April 1985). "Optical Document Filing System With Tera-Byte Capacity". International Society for Optics and Photonics. pp. 106–116. doi:10.1117/12.946440. Retrieved 16 April 2018 – via www.spiedigitallibrary.org.
  5. Vetter, R. J., Du, D. H., & Klietz, A. E. (1992, March). Network Supercomputing: Experiments with a Cray-2 to CM-2 HiPPI Connection. In Heterogeneous Processing, 1992. Proceedings. Workshop on (pp. 87-92). IEEE.
  6. Gara, et. al., (2005, March/May). Overview of the Blue Gene/L system architecture. IBM JRD, p.195-212 "32 TB of total memory" (p.203)
  7. "Hitachi Introduces 1-Terabyte Hard Drive". PCWorld. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  8. "Tech Jungle: Tech News and Opinions (by Paul Spain)". www.techjungle.com. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  9. "New Intel Server Board to Hold 1 TB of RAM". Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  10. "Web Archiving FAQs: How large is the Library's archive?". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
  11. "Hitachi Introduces 1-Terabyte Hard Drive". PC World. 2007-01-07. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
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