How Much Is A Petabyte? [Graphic]

Do you guys know what comes after Terabyte? It’s Petabyte which is a unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,000 terabytes. Recently, I found an infographic in which you will get the answer of the question  “How Much is a Petabyte?”. This infographic was created by Mozy to visualize and understand PB with the help of Gigabytes.

What is Petabyte?

A petabyte (PB) is a unit of digital information storage that represents one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. To put that into perspective, a petabyte is roughly equivalent to:

• About 500 billion pages of standard printed text.
• Around 13.3 years of HD video.
• Storing the entire written works of humanity many times over.

In everyday terms, a petabyte is used to measure extremely large data volumes, such as those stored by large companies, cloud services, and data centers. It’s a common term in the world of big data, where vast amounts of information need to be stored, processed, and analyzed. For instance, popular platforms like YouTube and Facebook handle PB of data every day due to the sheer volume of user-generated content they store and process.

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