Petabyte is a coordinate term of exabyte.
In computing terms the difference between exabyte and petabyte
is that exabyte is a unit of storage capacity, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) bytes while petabyte is 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 10245, or 250. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a pebibyte. SI symbol: PiB, computing symbol: PB.
exabyte
Noun
(
en noun)
(computing) a unit of storage capacity, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) bytes
Coordinate terms
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See also
* exbibyte
petabyte
English
Noun
(
wikipedia petabyte)
(
en noun)
(SI) One quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB.
(computing) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 10245, or 250. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a pebibyte. SI symbol: PiB, computing symbol: PB.
Coordinate terms
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