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Technical Definition


A terabyte(TB) is a measurement of data storage. It is equal to 1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 2^40.

Example


The U.S. Library of Congress Web Capture team has claimed that "as of May 2008, the Library has collected more than 82.6 terabytes of data".[1]

A large amount of data is typically stored on a terabyte hard drive.

Resources


[1]The Library of Congress,"About Web Caputre Activites at the Library of Congress" available at [1], Accessed March 6, 2009