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Petabyte (PB)


Petabyte is also known as PB. Petabyte is the unit of measurement greater than a Terabyte. A Petabyte is equal to 1,024 Terabyte or 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes.

Large organisations use petabytes of storage to hold massive amounts of data. If your PC has 2 TB storage then you will need 500 PCs to make up 1 Petabyte.

Kilobyte (KB), Megabyte (MB), Gigabyte (GB) and Terabyte (TB)

A kilobyte (KB) is 1,024 bytes. A megabyte (MB) is 1,024 kilobytes. A gigabyte (GB) is 1,024 megabytes. A terabyte (TB) is 1,024 gigabytes. A petabyte (PB) is 1,024 terabyte.

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