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About these units
Terabyte (TB)
A terabyte equals 1,099,511,627,776 bytes (2⁴⁰) in binary or 1 trillion bytes in decimal. Terabytes are associated with large-scale data storage: cloud drives, archival systems, scientific datasets, game installations, and high-definition video libraries. Modern personal computers often include terabyte-level drives, and enterprise systems may contain thousands of terabytes. The TB marks the boundary where storage becomes "big data," enabling machine learning training sets, genomic databases, and detailed satellite imagery archives. At this scale, efficient data management, compression, and redundancy become critical challenges.
Quadruple-Word (quad-word)
A quadruple word (quad-word) is a grouping of four standard words. On a 64-bit system, this equals 256 bits, forming the basis of advanced operations such as wide integer arithmetic, extended SIMD instructions, cryptographic keys, and high-precision floating-point values. Modern CPUs support quad-word operations through SIMD extensions like AVX and AVX-512, allowing parallel processing of large blocks of data in scientific computing, video encoding, machine learning, and physics simulations. Quad-words illustrate how data grouping evolves with hardware capability: as processors grow more powerful, software increasingly relies on larger and more complex data units.