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• n  a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes
• n  a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes

• Hitachi announced a $400 drive that will store a terabyte of data.
• The best-known players in the storage industry are the ones that peddle big iron: EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM and Hewlett-Packard sell global companies $100,000-per-terabyte .
• Needless to say, you can configure it with a half terabyte of hard drive space and a sick amount of RAM, if you want to go that route.

• TB
• tebibyte
• TiB

News & Articles

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• Why Has Apple Overpriced ICloud?
  Something which hasn't been mentioned in the weeks since Yahoo! (YHOO) announced that it would give a terabyte of storage for free as part of its Flickr photosharing service is: Why has Apple (AAPL) overpriced iCloud so much?
  June 17, 2013 - Forbes
• Paul Glister: Digital gadgetry, falling storage costs converge to reshape how past is viewed
  Yahoo is now offering a free terabyte of storage on its Flickr site. That a terabyte of free storage is now in range for companies aggressively promoting their wares tells us a lot about the computing world today.
  June 16, 2013 - The News & Observer
• Inside the NSA’s secret Utah data center
  The NSA is building a monstrous digital datacenter in a remote corner of Utah capable of holding as many as 1.25 million 4-terabyte hard drives, built into some 5,000 servers. All those drives will store the trillions upon trillions of ones and zeroes that make up your digital fingerprint.
  June 11, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Larry Ellison in ZDNet
  At one terabyte the problem rears its ugly head and it gets worse every year,said Ellison.
• Ron Rose in PR Newswire (press release)
  We were looking for a business intelligence product that provides excellent query performance against our rapidly growing multi-terabyte data warehouse,said Ron Rose, CIO for Priceline.com. "With MicroStrategy, our marketing team will have...
• Federico Capasso in Eetasia.com (subscription)
  Not everyone needs a terabyte of storage, but an increasing number of today's digital home computer users and small businesses have put together small networks that are literally running out of space to back up their daily files or work on... Lee Williams http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Williams&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHWK6lpSuqk9VKbzcDVZ14ztVA_kg PR Newswire (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20051128/NYM09528112005-1.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHw9w-8wtTtp9kP1yTyeA-DNGvVsQ Nov 28, 2005 99020 131336 terahertz Our approach will be to greatly increase the surface area used for emission," said Capasso. "Surface emission will be achieved by fabricating a suitable grating to scatter vertically the terahertz radiation generated in the device's active...