0 a unit of computer information consisting of 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes:
A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes.
The machine weighs 165 tons and contains more than a petabyte of data.
Further, data collections in the petabyte range are now emerging.
Envisat was launched in 2002 and it operated five years beyond its planned mission lifetime, delivering over a petabyte of data.
This type of parallelism is often referred to as data-parallelism, and data-parallel applications are a potential solution to petabyte scale data processing requirements.
This results in more than nine petabyte (9000 terabyte) of storage.