Sentence examples for petabyte from inspiring English sources
Take subatomic physics, where data are churned out by the petabyte.
He dreamed that by 2021 he would have provided a million e-books each, a petabyte of information that could probably be held in one hand, to a billion people all over the globe a quadrillion books, just given away.
The groups have already collected several petabytes of data (a petabyte can hold roughly 10 trillion copies of this article).In this section The party's (largely) over How to save lives Born digital Unbendable ReprintsAnother issue is ensuring that the data is stored in a format that makes it available in centuries to come.
(One petabyte is 1m gigabytes).
"Our new measurements of the brain's memory capacity increase conservative estimates by a factor of 10 to at least a petabyte, in the same ballpark as the World Wide Web".
The detectors are spitting out a petabyte of data every day, the equivalent of two hundred and ten thousand DVDs, which means that we are about to witness a fishing expedition in abyssal waters.
The consequence at CERN, specifically, is that a few hundred megabytes of its 100-petabyte tape repository are, on average, lost every year.
These black boxes house a five-petabyte database, big enough to hold the DNA of America's entire population 15 times over.
"The world is not yet ready for the million-petabyte data set the human brain would be," Dr. Lichtman said.
— Jenna Wortham Amazon Announces Bigger Data Warehouse Allthingsdistributed.com | Amazon Web Services now has a petabyte-sized storage/analysis service.
With each cable carrying data at a rate of 10 gigabits a second, the tapped cables could, in theory, deliver more than 21 petabytes a day – equivalent to sending all the information in all the books in the British Library 192 times every 24 hours.
