terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt 
: 1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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The iPhone 17 Pro Max, the larger variant of Apple’s Pro phone that launches today along with the iPhone 17, 17 Pro and iPhone Air, costs $2,000 if buyers choose the version with two terabytes (2TB) of storage.
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
Cabinets of hard drives holding thousands of terabytes of digital storage, worth millions of dollars, occupy only about 15% of the building.
—Pj Green
september 14, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
Under the hood, the A17 Pro processor is wickedly powerful, and a massive terabyte of storage outclasses every phone in this price bracket.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
The group stole six terabytes of data and demanded a $22 million ransom for its release.
—Raymond Umerley, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
Cabinets of hard drives holding thousands of terabytes of digital storage, worth millions of dollars, occupy only about 15% of the building.
—Pj Green
september 14, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
Under the hood, the A17 Pro processor is wickedly powerful, and a massive terabyte of storage outclasses every phone in this price bracket.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
The group stole six terabytes of data and demanded a $22 million ransom for its release.
—Raymond Umerley, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Terabyte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terabyte. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt
: 1024 gigabytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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