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Zettabits (Zb) Unit Definition
The zettabit is a multiple of the unit bit (b) for digital information or computer storage. The prefix zetta (Z) is defined in the International System of Units (SI) as a multiplier of 1021 (1 sextillion, short scale), and therefore 1 zettabit = 1021 bits = 1000000000000000000000 bits = 1000 exabits (Eb). The zettabit is represented by the symbols Zbit or Zb.
Overview
The zettabit is closely related to the zebibit (Zib), a unit multiple derived from the binary prefix zebi (Zi) of the same order of magnitude, which is equal to 270 bits = 1180591620717411303424 bits, or approximately 18% larger than the zettabit.
Prefixes for Multiples of Bits (b) or Bytes (B)
Multiple bits may be expressed and represented in several ways. For convenience of representing commonly reoccurring groups of bits in information technology, several units of information have traditionally been used. The most common is the unit byte, coined by Werner Buchholz in June 1956, which historically was used to represent the group of bits used to encode a single character of text (until UTF-8 multibyte encoding took over) in a computer and for this reason it was used as the basic addressable element in many computer architectures. The trend in hardware design converged on the most common implementation of using eight bits per byte, as it is widely used today. However, because of the ambiguity of relying on the underlying hardware design, the unit octet was defined to explicitly denote a sequence of eight bits.
Computers usually manipulate bits in groups of a fixed size, conventionally named words. Like the byte, the number of bits in a word also varies with the hardware design, and is typically between 8 and 80 bits, or even more in some specialized computers. In the 21st century, retail personal or server computers have a word size of 32 or 64 bits. The International System of Units (SI) defines a series of decimal prefixes for multiples of standardized units which are commonly also used with the bit and the byte. The prefixes kilo (103) through yotta (1024) increment by multiples of 1000, and the corresponding units are the kilobit (kbit) through the yottabit (Ybit).
Decimal |
Binary |
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Value |
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Value |
IEC |
JEDEC |
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1000 |
103 |
Kilo (k) | 1024 |
210 |
Kibi (Ki) | Kilo (K) |
10002 |
106 |
Mega (M) | 10242 |
220 |
Mebi (Mi) | Mega (M) |
10003 |
109 |
Giga (G) | 10243 |
230 |
Gibi (Gi) | Giga (G) |
10004 |
1012 |
Tera (T) | 10244 |
240 |
Tebi (Ti) | - |
10005 |
1015 |
Peta (P) | 10245 |
250 |
Pebi (Pi) | - |
10006 |
1018 |
Exa (E) | 10246 |
260 |
Exbi (Ei) | - |
10007 |
1021 |
Zetta (Z) | 10247 |
270 |
Zebi (Zi) | - |
10008 |
1024 |
Yotta (Y) | 10248 |
280 |
Yobi (Yi) | - |
10009 |
1027 |
Ronna (R) | 10249 |
290 |
Robi (Ri) | - |
100010 |
1030 |
Quetta (Q) | 102410 |
2100 |
Qubi (Qi) | - |
Other Data Storage Unit Definitions
- Bits (b)
- Bytes (B)
- Decabits (dab)
- Decabytes (daB)
- Dekabits (dab)
- Dekabytes (daB)
- Exabits (Eb)
- Exabytes (EB)
- Exbibits (Eib)
- Exbibytes (EiB)
- Gibibits (Gib)
- Gibibytes (GiB)
- Gigabits (Gb)
- Gigabytes (GB)
- Hectobits (hb)
- Hectobytes (hB)
- Kibibits (Kib)
- Kibibytes (KiB)
- Kilobits (kb)
- Kilobytes (KB)
- Mebibits (Mib)
- Mebibytes (MiB)
- Megabits (Mb)
- Megabytes (MB)
- Nibble (nibble)
- Pebibits (Pib)
- Pebibytes (PiB)
- Petabits (Pb)
- Petabytes (PB)
- Qubibits (Qib)
- Qubibytes (QiB)
- Quettabits (Qb)
- Quettabytes (QB)
- Robibits (Rib)
- Robibytes (RiB)
- Ronnabits (Rb)
- Ronnabytes (RB)
- Tebibits (Tib)
- Tebibytes (TiB)
- Terabits (Tb)
- Terabytes (TB)
- Yobibits (Yib)
- Yobibytes (YiB)
- Yottabits (Yb)
- Yottabytes (YB)
- Zebibits (Zib)
- Zebibytes (ZiB)
- Zettabits (Zb)
- Zettabytes (ZB)
Convert to Another Data Storage Unit
Orders of Magnitude for Data
An order of magnitude is a factor of ten. A quantity growing by four orders of magnitude implies it has grown by a factor of 10,000 or 104. This table presents a list of multiples, sorted by orders of magnitude, for digital information storage measured in bits.
The byte is a common unit of measurement of information (kilobyte, kibibyte, megabyte, mebibyte, gigabyte, gibibyte, terabyte, tebibyte, etc). For the purpose of this table, a byte is a group of 8 bits (octet), a nibble is a group of four bits. Historically, both assumptions have not always been true.
The decimal SI prefixes kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc, are powers of 103 = 1000. The binary prefixes kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, etc respectively refer to the corresponding power of 210 = 1024. In casual usage, when 1024 is a close enough approximation of 1000, the two corresponding prefixes are equivalent. See our Prefixes for Multiples of Bits (b) or Bytes (B) for more information.
Binary (bits) |
Decimal |
Item |
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Factor |
Term |
Factor |
Term |
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2-3 |
10-3 |
Millibit |
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2-2 |
10-2 |
Centibit |
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2-1 |
10-1 |
Decibit |
0.415 bits (log2 4⁄3) The amount of information needed to eliminate one option out of four. |
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0.6 - 1.3 bits - Approximate information per letter of English text |
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20 |
Bits (b) | 100 |
Bits (b) | 1 bit - 0 or 1, False or True, Low or High (aka unibit) |
1.442695 bits (log2 e) - Approximate size of a nat (a unit of information based on natural logarithms) |
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1.5849625 bits (log2 3)- Approximate size of a trit (a base-3 digit) |
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21 |
2 bits - A crumb (aka dibit) enough to uniquely identify one base pair of DNA |
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3 bits - A triad(e), (aka tribit) the size of an octal digit |
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22 |
Nibble (nibble) | 4 bits - (aka tetrad(e), nibble, quadbit, semioctet, or halfbyte) The size of a hexadecimal digit; decimal digits in binary-coded decimal form |
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5 bits - The size of code points in the Baudot code, used in telex communication (aka pentad) |
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6 bits - The size of code points in Univac Fieldata, in IBM "BCD" format, and in Braille. Enough to uniquely identify one codon of genetic code. The size of code points in Base64; thus, often the entropy per character in a randomly-generated password. |
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7 bits - The size of code points in the ASCII character set - minimum length to store 2 decimal digits |
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23 |
Bytes (B) | 8 bits - (aka octet or octad(e)) on many computer architectures. - Equivalent to 1 "word" on 8-bit computers (Apple II, Atari 800, Commodore 64, et al.). - The "word size" for 8-bit console systems including: Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System |
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101 |
Decabits (dab) | 10 bits - Minimum bit length to store a single byte with error-correcting computer memory - Minimum frame length to transmit a single byte with asynchronous serial protocols |
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12 bits - Wordlength of the PDP-8 of Digital Equipment Corporation (built from 1965-1990) |
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24 |
16 bits - The Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode, containing character codings for almost all modern languages, and a large number of symbols - The basic unit in UTF-16; The full Universal Character Set (Unicode) can be encoded in one or two of these - Commonly used in many programming languages, the size of an integer capable of holding 65,536 different values - Equivalent to 1 "word" on 16-bit computers (IBM PC, Commodore Amiga) - The "word size" for 16-bit console systems including: Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Mattel Intellivision |
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25 |
32 bits (4 bytes) - Size of an integer capable of holding 4,294,967,296 different values - Size of an IEEE 754 single-precision floating point number - Size of addresses in IPv4, the current Internet protocol - Equivalent to 1 "word" on 32-bit computers (Apple Macintosh, Pentium-based PC). - The "word size" for various console systems including: PlayStation, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Wii |
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36 bits - Size of word on Univac 1100-series computers and Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-10 |
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56 bits (7 bytes) - Cipher strength of the DES encryption standard |
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26 |
64 bits (8 bytes) - Size of an integer capable of holding 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 different values - Size of an IEEE 754 double-precision floating point number - Equivalent to 1 "word" on 64-bit computers (Power, PA-Risc, Alpha, Itanium, Sparc, x86-64 PCs and Macintoshes). - The "word size" for 64-bit console systems including: Nintendo 64, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
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80 bits (10 bytes) - Size of an extended precision floating point number, for intermediate calculations that can be performed in floating point units of most processors of the x86 family. |
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102 |
Hectobits (hb) | 100 bits |
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27 |
128 bits (16 bytes) - Size of addresses in IPv6, the successor protocol of IPv4 - Minimum cipher strength of the Rijndael and AES encryption standards, and of the widely used MD5 cryptographic message digest algorithm - Size of an SSE vector register, included as part of the x86-64 standard |
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160 bits - Maximum key length of the SHA-1, standard Tiger (hash), and Tiger2 cryptographic message digest algorithms |
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28 |
256 bits (32 bytes) - Minimum key length for the recommended strong cryptographic message digests as of 2004 - Size of an AVX2 vector register, present on newer x86-64 CPUs |
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29 |
512 bits (64 bytes) - Maximum key length for the standard strong cryptographic message digests in 2004 - Size of an AVX-512 vector register, present on some x86-64 CPUs |
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103 |
Kilobits (kb) | 1,000 bits |
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210 |
Kibibits (Kib) | 1,024 bits (128 bytes) - RAM capacity of the Atari 2600 |
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1,288 bits - Approximate maximum capacity of a standard magnetic stripe card |
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211 |
2,048 bits (256 bytes) - RAM capacity of the stock Altair 8800 |
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212 |
4,096 bits (512 bytes) - Typical sector size, and minimum space allocation unit on computer storage volumes, with most file systems - Approximate amount of information on a sheet of single-spaced typewritten paper (without formatting) |
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4,704 bits (588 bytes) - Uncompressed single-channel frame length in standard MPEG audio (75 frames per second and per channel), with medium quality 8-bit sampling at 44,100 Hz (or 16-bit sampling at 22,050 Hz) |
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8,000 bits (1,000 bytes) |
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213 |
Kibibytes (KiB) | 8,192 bits (1,024 bytes) - RAM capacity of a Sinclair ZX81. |
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9,408 bits (1,176 bytes) - Uncompressed single-channel frame length in standard MPEG audio (75 frames per second and per channel), with standard 16-bit sampling at 44,100 Hz |
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104 |
15,360 bits - One screen of data displayed on an 8-bit monochrome text console (80x24) |
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214 |
16,384 bits (2 kibibytes) - One page of typed text, RAM capacity of Nintendo Entertainment System |
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215 |
32,768 bits (4 kibibytes) |
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216 |
65,536 bits (8 kibibytes) |
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105 |
100,000 bits |
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217 |
131,072 bits (16 kibibytes) - RAM capacity of the smallest Sinclair ZX Spectrum. |
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218 |
262,144 bits (32 kibibytes) - RAM capacity of Matra Alice 90 |
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393,216 bits (48 kibibytes) - RAM capacity of 48K Sinclair ZX Spectrum |
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496 kilobits - Approximate size of this page |
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219 |
524,288 bits (64 kibibytes) - RAM capacity of a lot of popular 8-bit computers like the C-64, Amstrad CPC etc. |
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106 |
Megabits (Mb) | 1,000,000 bits |
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220 |
Mebibits (Mib) | 1,048,576 bits (128 kibibytes) - RAM capacity of popular 8-bit computers like the C-128, Amstrad CPC etc. Or a 1024 x 768 pixel jpeg image. |
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1,978,560 bits - A one-page, standard-resolution black-and-white fax (1728 × 1145 pixels) |
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221 |
2,097,152 bits (256 kibibytes) |
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4,147,200 bits - One frame of uncompressed NTSC DVD video (720 × 480 × 12 bpp Y'CbCr) |
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222 |
4,194,304 bits (512 kibibytes) |
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4,976,640 bits - One frame of uncompressed PAL DVD video (720 × 576 × 12 bpp Y'CbCr) |
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5,000,000 bits - Typical English book volume in plain text format of 500 pages × 2000 characters per page and 5-bits per character. |
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5,242,880 bits (640 kibibytes) - The maximum addressable memory of the original IBM PC architecture |
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Megabytes (MB) | 8,000,000 bits (1,000 kilobytes) - The preferred definition of megabyte |
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8,343,400 bits - One "typical" sized photograph with reasonably good quality (1024 × 768 pixels). |
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223 |
Mebibytes (MiB) | 8,388,608 bits (1,024 kibibytes) - One of a few traditional meanings of megabyte |
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107 |
11,520,000 bits - Capacity of a lower-resolution computer monitor (as of 2006), 800 × 600 pixels, 24 bpp |
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11,796,480 bits - Capacity of a 3.5 in floppy disk, colloquially known as 1.44 megabyte but actually 1.44 × 1000 × 1024 bytes |
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224 |
16,777,216 bits (2 mebibytes) |
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25,000,000 bits - Amount of data in a typical color slide |
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30,000,000 bits - The first commercial harddisk IBM 350 in 1956 could store 3.75 MiB for a cost of 50,000 USD, equivalent to 470195.84 USD in 2013. |
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225 |
33,554,432 bits (4 mebibytes) - RAM capacity of stock Nintendo 64 and average size of a music track in MP3 format. |
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41,943,040 bits (5 mebibytes) - Approximate size of the Complete Works of Shakespeare |
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80,000,000 bits - In 1985 a 10 MB harddisk cost 710 USD, equivalent to 1687.79 USD in 2013. |
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98,304,000 bits - Capacity of a high-resolution computer monitor as of 2011, 2560 × 1600 pixels, 24 bpp |
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50 - 100 megabits - Amount of information in a typical phone book |
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226 |
108 |
67,108,864 bits (8 mebibytes) |
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227 |
134,217,728 bits (16 mebibytes) |
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150 megabits - Amount of data in a large foldout map |
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228 |
268,435,456 bits (32 mebibytes) |
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144,000,000 bits - In 1980 an 18 MB harddisk cost 4,199 USD, equivalent to 13029.45 USD in 2013. |
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423,360,000 bits - A five minute audio recording, in CDDA quality |
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229 |
536,870,912 bits (64 mebibytes) |
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109 |
Gigabits (Gb) | 1,000,000,000 bits |
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230 |
Gibibits (Gib) | 1,073,741,824 bits (128 mebibytes) |
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231 |
2,147,483,648 bits (256 mebibytes) |
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232 |
4,294,967,296 bits (512 mebibytes) |
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5.45×109 bits (650 mebibytes) - Capacity of a regular compact disc (CD) |
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5.89×109 bits (702 mebibytes) - Capacity of a large regular compact disc |
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6.4×109 bits - Capacity of the human genome (assuming 2 bits for each base pair) |
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6,710,886,400 bits - Average size of a movie in Divx format in 2002. |
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Gigabytes (GB) | 8,000,000,000 bits (1,000 megabytes) - In 1995 a 1 GB harddisk cost 849 USD, equivalent to 1424.52 USD in 2013. |
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233 |
Gibibytes (GiB) | 8,589,934,592 bits (1,024 mebibytes) - The maximum disk capacity using the 21-bit LBA SCSI standard introduced in 1979. |
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1010 |
10,000,000,000 bits |
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234 |
17,179,869,184 bits (2 gibibytes) - The storage limit of IDE standard for harddisks in 1986, also the volume size limit for the FAT16B file system (with 32 KiB clusters) released in 1987 as well as the maximum file size (2 GiB-1) in DOS operating systems prior to the introduction of large file support in DOS 7.10 (1997). |
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235 |
34,359,738,368 bits (4 gibibytes) - Maximum addressable memory for the Motorola 68020 (1984) and Intel 80386 (1985), also the volume size limit for the FAT16B file system (with 64 KiB clusters) as well as the maximum file size (4 GiB-1) in MS-DOS 7.1-8.0. |
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3.76×1010 bits (4.7 gigabytes) - Capacity of a single-layer, single-sided DVD |
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236 |
68,719,476,736 bits (8 gibibytes) |
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79,215,880,888 bits - 9.2 GiB size of Wikipedia article text compressed with bzip2 on 2013-06-05 |
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1011 |
100,000,000,000 bits |
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237 |
137,438,953,472 bits (16 gibibytes). |
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1.46×1011 bits (17 gigabytes) - Capacity of a double-sided, dual-layered DVD |
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2.15×1011 bits (25 gigabytes) - Capacity of a single-sided, single-layered 12-cm Blu-ray disc |
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238 |
274,877,906,944 bits (32 gibibytes) |
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239 |
549,755,813,888 bits (64 gibibytes) |
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1012 |
Terabits (Tb) | 1,000,000,000,000 bits |
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240 |
Tebibits (Tib) | 1,099,511,627,776 bits (128 gibibytes) - Estimated capacity of the Polychaos dubium genome, the largest known genome. The storage limit for ATA-1 compliant disks introduced in 1994. |
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1.6×1012 bits (200 gigabytes) - Capacity of a hard disk that would be considered average as of 2008. In 2005 a 200 GB harddisk cost 100 USD, equivalent to 130.91 USD in 2013. As of April 2015, this is the maximum capacity of a fingernail-sized microSD card. |
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241 |
2,199,023,255,552 bits (256 gibibytes) - As of 2017, this is the maximum capacity of a fingernail-sized microSD card |
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242 |
4,398,046,511,104 bits (512 gibibytes) |
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Terabytes (TB) | 8,000,000,000,000 bits (1,000 gigabytes) - In 2010 a 1 TB harddisk cost 80 USD, equivalent to 93.8 USD in 2013. |
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243 |
Tebibytes (TiB) | 8,796,093,022,208 bits (1,024 gibibytes) |
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(approximately) 8.97×1012 bits - As of 2010, data of π to the largest number of decimal digits ever calculated (2.7×1012) |
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1013 |
10,000,000,000,000 bits (1.25 terabytes) - Capacity of a human being's functional memory, according to Raymond Kurzweil in The Singularity Is Near, pg. 126 |
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16,435,678,019,584 bits (1.9 terabytes) - Size of all multimedia files used in English wikipedia on May 2012 |
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244 |
17,592,186,044,416 bits (2 tebibytes) - Maximum size of MBR partitions used in PCs introduced in 1983, also the maximum disk capacity using the 32-bit LBA SCSI introduced in 1987 |
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245 |
35,184,372,088,832 bits (4 tebibytes) |
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245 |
70,368,744,177,664 bits (8 tebibytes) |
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1014 |
100,000,000,000,000 bits |
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247 |
140,737,488,355,328 bits (16 tebibytes) - NTFS volume capacity in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or earlier implementation. |
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1.5×1014 bits (18.75 terabytes) |
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248 |
281,474,976,710,656 bits (32 tebibytes) |
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249 |
562,949,953,421,312 bits (64 tebibytes) |
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1015 |
Petabits (Pb) | 1,000,000,000,000,000 bits |
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250 |
Pebibits (Pib) | 1,125,899,906,842,624 bits (128 tebibytes) |
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251 |
2,251,799,813,685,248 bits (256 tebibytes) |
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252 |
4,503,599,627,370,496 bits (512 tebibytes) |
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Petabytes (PB) | 8,000,000,000,000,000 bits (1,000 terabytes) |
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253 |
Pebibytes (PiB) | 9,007,199,254,740,992 bits (1,024 tebibytes) |
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1016 |
10,000,000,000,000,000 bits |
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254 |
18,014,398,509,481,984 bits (2 pebibytes) |
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255 |
36,028,797,018,963,968 bits (4 pebibytes) - Theoretical maximum of addressable physical memory in the AMD64 architecture |
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4.5×1016 bits (5.625 petabytes) - Estimated hard drive space in Google's server farm as of 2004 |
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256 |
72,057,594,037,927,936 bits (8 pebibytes) |
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10 petabytes (1016 bytes) - Estimated approximate size of the Library of Congress's collection, including non-book materials, as of 2005. Size of the Internet Archive topped 10 PB in October 2013 |
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1017 |
100,000,000,000,000,000 bits |
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257 |
144,115,188,075,855,872 bits (16 pebibytes) |
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2×1017 bits (25 petabytes) - Storage space of Megaupload file-hosting service at the time it was shut down in 2012 |
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258 |
288,230,376,151,711,744 bits (32 pebibytes) |
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259 |
576,460,752,303,423,488 bits (64 pebibytes) |
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8×1017 bits - The storage capacity of the fictional Star Trek character Data |
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1018 |
Exabits (Eb) | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits |
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260 |
Exbibits (Eib) | 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bits (128 pebibytes) - The storage limit using the 48-bit LBA ATA-6 standard introduced in 2002. |
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1.6×1018 bits (200 petabytes) - Total amount of printed material in the world |
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2×1018 bits (250 petabytes) - Storage space at Facebook data warehouse as of June 2013, growing at a rate of 15 PB/month. |
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261 |
2,305,843,009,213,693,952 bits (256 pebibytes) |
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2.4×1018 bits (300 petabytes) - Storage space at Facebook data warehouse as of April 2014, growing at a rate of 0.6 PB/day. |
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262 |
4,611,686,018,427,387,904 bits (512 pebibytes) |
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Exabytes (EB) | 8,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits (1,000 petabytes) |
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263 |
Exbibytes (EiB) | 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 bits (1,024 pebibytes) |
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1019 |
10,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits |
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264 |
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bits (2 exbibytes) |
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265 |
36,893,488,147,419,103,232 bits (4 exbibytes) |
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50,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits (50 exabit) |
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266 |
73,786,976,294,838,206,464 bits (8 exbibytes) |
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1020 |
100,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits |
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1.2×1020 bits (15 exabytes) - Estimated storage space at Google data warehouse as of 2013 |
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267 |
147,573,952,589,676,412,928 bits (16 exbibytes) - Maximum addressable memory using 64-bit addresses without segmentation. Maximum volume and file size for ZFS filesystem. |
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268 |
295,147,905,179,352,825,856 bits (32 exbibytes) |
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3.5 × 1020 bits - Increase in information capacity when 1 Joule of energy is added to a heat-bath at 300 K (27 °C) |
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269 |
590,295,810,358,705,651,712 bits (64 exbibytes) |
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1021 |
Zettabits (Zb) | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits |
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270 |
Zebibits (Zib) | 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bits (128 exbibytes) |
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271 |
2,361,183,241,434,822,606,848 bits (256 exbibytes) |
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3.4×1021 bits (0.36 zettabytes) - Amount of information that can be stored in 1 gram of DNA |
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4.7×1021 bits (0.50 zettabytes) - Amount of digitally stored information in the world as of May 2009 |
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4.8×1021 bits (0.61 zettabytes) - Total hard drive capacity shipped in 2016 |
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272 |
4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 bits (512 exbibytes) |
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Zettabytes (ZB) | 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits (1,000 exabytes) |
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273 |
Zebibytes (ZiB) | 9,444,732,965,739,290,427,392 bits (1,024 exbibytes) |
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1022 |
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits |
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276 |
276 bits - Maximum volume and file size in the Unix File System (UFS) and maximum disk capacity using the 64-bit LBA SCSI standard introduced in 2000 using 512-byte blocks. |
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1023 |
1.0×1023 bits - Increase in information capacity when 1 Joule of energy is added to a heat-bath at 1 K (−272.15 °C) |
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277 |
6.0×1023 bits - Information content of 1 mole (12.01 g) of graphite at 25 °C; equivalent to an average of 0.996 bits per atom. |
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1024 |
Yottabits (Yb) | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits |
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7.3×1024 bits - Information content of 1 mole (18.02 g) of liquid water at 25 °C; equivalent to an average of 12.14 bits per molecule. |
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280 |
Yobibits (Yib) | 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bits (128 zebibytes) |
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8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits (1,000 zettabytes) |
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283 |
Yobibytes (YiB) | 9,671,406,556,917,033,397,649,408 bits (1,024 zebibytes) |
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1025 |
1.1×1025 bits - Entropy increase of 1 mole (18.02 g) of water, on vaporizing at 100 °C at standard pressure; equivalent to an average of 18.90 bits per molecule. |
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1.5×1025 bits - Information content of 1 mole (20.18 g) of neon gas at 25 °C and 1 atm; equivalent to an average of 25.39 bits per atom. |
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Beyond Standardized SI / IEC (Binary) Prefixes |
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2150 |
N/A |
1045 |
N/A |
~ 1045 bits - The number of bits required to perfectly recreate the natural matter of the average-sized U.S. adult male human brain down to the quantum level on a computer is about 2×1045 bits of information (see Bekenstein bound for the basis for this calculation). |
2193 |
1058 |
~ 1058 bits - Thermodynamic entropy of the sun (about 30 bits per proton, plus 10 bits per electron). |
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2230 |
1069 |
~ 1069 bits - Thermodynamic entropy of the Milky Way Galaxy (counting only the stars, not the black holes within the galaxy) |
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2255 |
1077 |
1.5×1077 bits - Information content of a one-solar-mass black hole. |
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2305 |
1090 |
The information capacity of the observable universe, according to Seth Lloyd. (not including gravitation) |
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