terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt 
: 1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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Last month, a different group, called INC Ransom, published a huge trove of data — three terabytes’ worth — culled from a hack of the NHS Dumfries and Galloway, an NHS board overseeing a region of Scotland for the health service.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 5 June 2024
The database of emails consists of more than 10 million records and spans six terabytes – which would roughly fill 8,000 physical filing cabinets if printed on paper.
—Nick Penzenstadler, The Courier-Journal, 23 May 2024
Over 64 billion terabytes of digital information was created and stored in 2020, enough to fill some 500 billion smartphones.
—Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
Over four years, Amazon turned over millions of pages of internal documents and more than 100 terabytes of data, according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the scope of the probe.
—Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 5 June 2024
The database of emails consists of more than 10 million records and spans six terabytes – which would roughly fill 8,000 physical filing cabinets if printed on paper.
—Nick Penzenstadler, The Courier-Journal, 23 May 2024
Over 64 billion terabytes of digital information was created and stored in 2020, enough to fill some 500 billion smartphones.
—Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
Over four years, Amazon turned over millions of pages of internal documents and more than 100 terabytes of data, according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the scope of the probe.
—Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
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terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt
: 1024 gigabytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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