different between yottabyte vs zettabyte

English

Etymology

yotta- +? byte

Noun

yottabyte (plural yottabytes)

1. (computing) One septillion (10²⁴) bytes. SI symbol: YB.
   • 2012, James Bamford, Wired: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

     [...] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10²⁴ bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

Translations

See also

• yobibyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English yottabyte.

Noun

yottabyte m (plural yottabytes)

1. (computing) yottabyte (one septillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: YB

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• yottabit
• yobibyte

English

Etymology

zetta- +? byte

Noun

zettabyte (plural zettabytes)

1. (computing) One sextillion (10²¹) bytes. SI symbol: ZB.
   • 2015, Fiona Graham, Look-ahead 2015: Fly into the future and other predictions, BBC:

     Conservative estimates put data produced in 2020 alone at 44 zettabytes.

Coordinate terms

• Previous: exabyte
• Next: yottabyte

See also

• zebibyte

Translations

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English zettabyte.

Noun

zettabyte m (plural zettabytes)

1. (computing) zettabyte (one sixtillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: ZB

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• zettabit
• zebibyte

Spanish

Etymology

From English zettabyte.

Noun

zettabyte m (plural zettabytes)

1. zettabyte