What is a Zettabyte (ZB)?

What does ZB stand for?

A zettabyte (ZB) is a uNit of Digital Records Storage used to denote the size of statistics. It is equivalent to at least one,024 Exabytes or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.

What Does Zettabyte Mean?

The prefix "zetta" is part of the International System of Units (SI) and refers to 1021 units. Hard disk manufacturers label their merchandise in SI, which may confuse a few people within the IT subject. The ISO, IEEE and the IEC all endorse the usage of the unit Zebibyte, which indicates 270 bytes and is extra correct for the degree of bytes.

Two interpretations may be made the usage of the 2 requirements:

Using SI, one zettabyte is equal to at least one,000 exabytes or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 1021 bytes. Using conventional Binary measurement, one zettabyte is equivalent to one,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes, that’s 270 bytes, also equal to one zebibyte (ZiB).