In decimal units, one terabyte equals how many gigabytes?
Answer1,000
Tera means a trillion, so 1 TB is 1,000 GB.
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Terabyte facts & stats
7 fact-checked facts about data storage and digital units, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.
The basics
Which unit comes after terabyte?
AnswerPetabyte
A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes.
Going deeper
Why does a new '1 TB' drive often show about 931 GB on a computer?
AnswerMakers count in decimal units while some systems count in binary
1 trillion bytes equals about 931 binary gigabytes.
The prefix 'tera' comes from a Greek word meaning what?
AnswerMonster
Greek teras means monster.
How much data does a single-layer Blu-ray disc hold?
Answer25 GB
4.7 GB is a single-layer DVD.
Expert level
How many bytes are in a tebibyte (TiB)?
Answer2 to the 40th
Binary prefixes like tebi use powers of 2.
About how much did the IBM 350, the first commercial hard disk drive (1956), store?
AnswerAbout 5 megabytes
It used fifty 24-inch platters to hold about 3.75 MB.
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