petabyteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From peta- +‎ byte.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpɛtəbaɪt/

名詞

petabyte (plural petabytes)

1. One quadrillion (10, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes.
2. (computing, informal) A pebibyte.
   • 2008 June 23, Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, in Wired‎, →ISSN:

     As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.

   • 2017, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Higher Education under Late Capitalism, Springer, →ISBN, page 82:

     The Hadron Collider has gone from producing 320 terabytes of data a week to a petabyte a second. In short, it has been said that the total amount of data created worldwide in 2011 was about one zetabyte (or 1,000,000 petabytes) and that this figure will increase by 50%–60% in each subsequent year.

同意語

• PB

等位語

• Previous: terabyte
• Next: exabyte

派生語

関連する語

• pebibit
• pebibyte
• petabit