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What is a Terabyte?
A terabyte is a unit of measurement in computer science that is bigger than a gigabyte. One terabyte equals 1,024 gigabytes (GB) or one trillion (10^12) bytes. It is used to measure large storage devices like hard drives. A terabyte is represented by an uppercase "TBâ.
Example: External hard drives generally have storage capacity in Terabytes.
1 TB = 1,024 GB = 1,048,576 MB = 1,073,741,824 KB = 1,099,511,627,776 B
- A Terabyte of storage can store between 250,000 and 300,000 image files or 500,000 high-resolution photos.
- It can hold up to 500 hours of high-definition (1080P) video.
- Around 17,000 hours of audio data can be stored in a Terabyte.
- Approximately 85 million MS Word documents can be stored in a Terabyte.
- A typical household consumes about a terabyte of data per month while streaming entertainment.
How Many Gigabytes or Megabytes are in a Terabyte?
1 terabyte (TB) equals 1,000 gigabytes (GB) or 1,000,000 megabytes (MB). In the case of 2TB, 2 terabytes (TB) equals 2,000 gigabytes (GB) or 2,000,000 megabytes (MB).
Conversion of Other Units to Terabytes
The following table converts other units to terabytes −
| S.No. | Other Units | Values |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 Bit equals to | 1.25e-13 TB |
| 2 | 1 Kilobit equals to | 1.25e-10 TB |
| 3 | 1 Kibibit equals to | 1.28e-10 TB |
| 4 | 1 Megabit equals to | 1.25e-7 TB |
| 5 | 1 Mebibit equals to | 1.3107e-7 TB |
| 6 | 1 Gigabit equals to | 0.000125 TB |
| 7 | 1 Gibibit equals to | 0.000134218 TB |
| 8 | 1 Terabit equals to | 0.125 TB |
| 9 | 1 Tebibit equals to | 0.137439 TB |
| 10 | 1 Petabit equals to | 125 TB |
| 11 | 1 Pebibit equals to | 140.737 TB |
| 12 | 1 Exabit equals to | 125000 TB |
| 13 | 1 Exbibit equals to | 144115.18807586 TB |
| 14 | 1 Yobibit equals to | 151100000000 TB |
| 15 | 1 Nibble equals to | 5.0e-13 TB |
| 16 | 1 Byte equals to | 1.0e-12 TB |
| 17 | 1 Kilobyte equals to | 1.0e-9 TB |
| 18 | 1 Kibibyte equals to | 1.024e-9 TB |
| 19 | 1 Megabyte equals to | 1.0e-6 TB |
| 20 | 1 Mebibyte equals to | 1.0486e-6 TB |
| 21 | 1 Gigabyte equals to | 0.001 TB |
| 22 | 1 Gibibyte equals to | 0.00107374 TB |
| 23 | 1 Terabyte equals to | 931.323 TB |
| 24 | 1 Tebibyte equals to | 1024 TB |
| 25 | 1 Petabyte equals to | 931323 TB |
| 26 | 1 Pebibyte equals to | 1125.9 TB |
| 27 | 1 Exabyte equals to | 1,000,000 TB |
| 28 | 1 Exbibyte equals to | 1152921.504 TB |
| 29 | 1 Zettabyte equals to | 1,000,000,000 TB |
| 30 | 1 Yottabyte equals to | 1,000,000,000,000 TB |
| 31 | 1 Yobibyte equals to | 1208925819614.6 TB |
FAQs on Terabyte
1. How much is a terabyte of data?
A Terabyte equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes or 1,024 gigabytes. It's estimated that a single TB could store around 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia, and 10 TB could hold the entire printed collection of the U.S. Library of Congress.
2. What's bigger than a terabyte?
A Petabyte is 1,024 Terabytes, and an Exabyte is 1,024 Petabytes.
3. How many gigabytes are in a terabyte?
1024 GB (gigabytes) = 1 TB (terabytes). 1024 GB are in 1 TB.
4. What are some examples of data that could fit into a Terabyte?
Examples include about 250,000 songs, 500 hours of HD video, and millions of documents.
5. How is a Terabyte used in everyday digital storage?
A Terabyte is commonly used to measure large storage capacities in computers, hard drives, and cloud storage services.