PB

What is a Petabyte?

Digital Storage Unit

Definition

A petabyte (PB) is a unit of digital information equal to 1,000 terabytes or 1 million gigabytes.

Popular Petabyte Conversions

Most common conversions from Petabytes

1 PB = 8,000,000,000,000,000 b Petabyte to Bits 1 PB = 1,000,000,000,000,000 B Petabyte to Bytes 1 PB = 1,000,000,000,000 KB Petabyte to Kilobytes 1 PB = 1,000,000,000 MB Petabyte to Megabytes 1 PB = 1,000,000 GB Petabyte to Gigabytes 1 PB = 1,000 TB Petabyte to Terabytes

History

The petabyte became relevant with the growth of big data and cloud computing in the 2010s.

Common Uses

Data center storage
Cloud service providers
Scientific research data
Large organization backups

Fun Facts

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Netflix stores about 3.14 petabytes of video

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Google processes over 20 petabytes of data daily

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1 petabyte could store DNA of the entire US population

All Petabyte Conversions

Petabytes to Bits PB → b Petabytes to Bytes PB → B Petabytes to Kilobytes PB → KB Petabytes to Megabytes PB → MB Petabytes to Gigabytes PB → GB Petabytes to Terabytes PB → TB Petabytes to Kibibytes PB → KiB Petabytes to Mebibytes PB → MiB Petabytes to Gibibytes PB → GiB Petabytes to Tebibytes PB → TiB