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Zettabyte

Last Updated May 24, 2021 2:00 pm

2 to the 70th power bytes, which is approximately 10 to the 21st power (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. A zettabyte is equal to 1,024 exabytes.

The name zetta was chosen because it’s the last letter of the Latin alphabet and also sounds like the Greek letter Zeta.

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