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What is a terabyte?

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A terabyte is one trillion bytes (10¹² = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes) in current standard usage.

1 terabyte (TB) = 1,000 gigabytes (GB) = 1,000,000 megabytes (MB)

(There is a similar unit, the terabinary byte, or "tebibyte", which is 2⁴⁰ or 1024⁴ = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. However, this unit is never actually used, as hard drives are the only things that can hold this much, and they are always measured in powers of 10.)

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