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zettabyte

noun

  1. unit of digital information equal to 1000 exabytes
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈzɛtəbaɪt/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English zetta- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydt Proto-Germanic *bītaną Proto-West Germanic *bītan Old English bītan Middle English biten English bite English byte English zettabyte From zetta- + byte.

  1. One sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.

    “Cerberus Scientist: I'm sorry, sir. None of Normandy's surveillance feeds have been responding since Shepard went rogue. Illusive Man: I want it back. Retry the remote lockdown protocols. Cerberus Scientist: After our last attempt, EDI flooded our server with seven zettabytes of explicit images. I think she was making a joke.”

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

  2. A zebibyte.