How many characters in a terabyte?

Answer 1

According to the International System of Units: 1 terabyte (TB) = 10004 bytes (B) = 1012 B = 1,000,000,000,000 B

This is the definition used for hard drives, large data arrays, and other things this size. That is 1,000 times a gigabyte (GB) or 1,000,000 times a megabyte (MB), which is a million million bytes.

Among other things, a computer often uses one byte of space, in memory or on disk or tape, to represent one character (such as "c" or "&"). To think practically how much information a terabyte of disk space holds, let's assume we're storing text from magazine pages on a computer that does use one byte per character. At an average 5,000 characters per page, 1TB of disk space could hold 220 million pages of text!

(When referring to computer memory, 1000 is be replaced by 1024. This is because 1024 is the nearest power of 2 to a thousand. 1024 is 210. Memory does not exist in terabyte sizes, though, so "terabyte" always has the standard definition of 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.)

Answer 2

240 bytes, or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes

Now, for how many 1s and 0s a terabyte can hold, we multiply that by 8 and we have 8,796,093,022,208 bits.

Now try counting to that number in your head.

For disk manufacturers: 109KB (1024000000000 byte), for everyone else: 230KB (1099511627776 byte).

Answer 3

1 000 000 000 000 bytes=1 terabyte