TB

What is a Terabyte?

Digital Storage Unit

Definition

A terabyte (TB) is a unit of digital information equal to 1,000 gigabytes (decimal) or 1,024 gigabytes (binary).

Popular Terabyte Conversions

Most common conversions from Terabytes

1 TB = 8,000,000,000,000 b Terabyte to Bits 1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 B Terabyte to Bytes 1 TB = 1,000,000,000 KB Terabyte to Kilobytes 1 TB = 1,000,000 MB Terabyte to Megabytes 1 TB = 1,000 GB Terabyte to Gigabytes 1 TB = 0.001 PB Terabyte to Petabytes

History

The terabyte became relevant in the 2000s as hard drive capacities grew. Consumer drives now commonly offer multiple terabytes.

Common Uses

Hard drive and SSD capacities
Cloud storage plans
Data center storage
Video editing projects

Fun Facts

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1 TB can store about 250,000 photos or 500 hours of video

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The human brain can store an estimated 2.5 petabytes

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A 4K movie is about 100 GB, so 1 TB holds about 10 movies

All Terabyte Conversions

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