COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
MEMORY SYSTEMS
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Question
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Terrabyte
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Petabyte
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Peta-means 1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000; a Petabyte is 1, 000 Terabytes. Exa-means 1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000; an Exabyte is 1, 000 Petabytes. Zetta-means 1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000; a Zettabyte is 1, 000 Exabytes. Yotta-means 1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000; a Yottabyte is 1, 000 Zettabytes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Terabyte vs. Units larger than a terabyte include a petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte and brontobyte. A geopbyte is also larger than a terabyte and refers to 1030 bytes, or 1, 000 brontobytes. Additional units of measurement become necessary as the amount of data in the world increases.
Detailed explanation-3: -But what comes after the yottabyte? Two proposed names for the next levels are hellabyte or brontobyte (1, 000 yottabytes).