terabyte

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(thing) by Blackavar (1.2 y) (print)   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:57:23
1024 gigabytes, or 1,048,576 megabytes, or 1.073741e+09 kilobytes, or 1.099511e+12 bytes. A measurement of computer storage. A terabyte is a horrendously huge amount of information.
(thing) by SlickCow (8.5 mon) (print)   (I like it!) Thu Jun 08 2000 at 22:46:50
1 Terabyte: All the X-ray films in a large technological hospital OR
50000 trees made into paper and printed OR
Daily rate of EOS data (1998)
2 Terabytes: An academic research library
10 Terabytes: The printed collection of the US Library of Congress
50 Terabytes: The contents of a large Mass Storage System
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