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Petabyte (PB)
A petabyte is 1 quadrillion bytes in decimal (10¹⁵) or 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes in binary (2⁵⁰). At this size, storage enters the realm of massive data infrastructures: internet archive collections, large-scale scientific simulations, genomic sequencing databases, machine learning datasets containing billions of records, multinational cloud storage networks. A single PB can store thousands of HD films, millions of e-books, or extensive enterprise backups. Petabytes mark the transition from everyday computing into large-scale data engineering, distributed systems, and global information ecosystems.
Petabyte (10^15 bytes) (PB (10^15))
A decimal petabyte equals 1 quadrillion bytes, a capacity used in cloud data centers, AI training sets, and global archival projects. Organizations like scientific research institutes, major cloud providers, and financial institutions routinely manage petabyte-scale data, requiring specialized infrastructure, redundancy strategies, and data governance. The shift from terabytes to petabytes marks a tipping point where storage strategy must incorporate distributed systems, advanced compression, and scalable metadata management.