Convert Zip 100 (Zip 100) to Petabyte (PB) instantly.
About these units
Zip 100 (Zip 100)
The Zip 100 drive stored 100 MB, offering a dramatic leap over floppy disk capacity. Released by Iomega in the mid-1990s, it became extremely popular for backups, graphics projects, and transporting large files. Graphic designers, office workers, and early multimedia users relied heavily on Zip drives during a period when hard drives were small and CDs were not yet convenient for rewritable storage. Zip disks represented an era of transitional storage—but also gained notoriety for the infamous "click of death," a mechanical failure that could render disks unreadable. Despite this, Zip drives were a defining feature of 1990s computing.
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.