How to Use terabyte in a Sentence

terabyte

noun
Definition of terabytenext
  • The hard drive comes in seven sizes—from 1 to 8 terabytes.
    — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The 8 terabytes of storage are enough to hold plenty of games.
    — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Who’s ready for a terabyte of storage on their new iPhone?
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Still, a terabyte-size key isn’t exactly easy to work with.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2017
  • There were so many overdubs, the album folder grew to half a terabyte.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Since this is Google Earth, though, all the text and images get overlaid on top of Google's terabytes of Earth imagery.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The difference, Singhal said, is an increase from 64 terabytes to 4 petabytes in the new cores.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Beek said his company plans to charge $5,000 a month to store three terabytes of data.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • That can be configured up to a 28-core model with 1.5 terabytes of RAM.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 5 June 2019
  • For each model, one time point might be half a terabyte, and there are millions of time steps in each heartbeat.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2024
  • Apple makes each new step up pretty big — the next level is $9.99 per month for two terabytes.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Our terabytes are finally put to use for the betterment of mankind.
    — David Rutland, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2020
  • Top-of-the-line tapes can hold up to 15 terabytes and can be archived in third-party locations at a fraction of the cost of cheapest cloud storage.
    — Rob Sloan, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Most laptop hard drives can range in memory from about half a terabyte to two terabytes.
    — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The Department of Commerce produces about 20 to 40 terabytes of data a day.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 21 June 2018
  • The first of three ViaSat-3 satellites — each with a terabyte of bandwidth — will cover the Americas.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The electronic holdings at the archives are around 835 terabytes.
    — Sean Catangui, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • The higher end models (with four ports) can be configured up to 2 terabytes of storage.
    — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The Landsat archive currently grows by a terabyte a day.
    — OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Customers should get an email alert once their usage reaches 85 percent of a terabyte.
    — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 29 June 2017
  • The battering clocked in at 1.35 terabytes per second of data aimed at its systems.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Those sensors generate more than a terabyte and a half of data each race weekend.
    — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 29 June 2022
  • In total, the team analyzed 1 petabyte worth of data and compiled 219 terabytes worth of data.
    — Fox News, 20 June 2019
  • Some of them record terabytes of data every day—and the torrent is only increasing.
    — Wired, 17 Mar. 2019
  • Some of them record terabytes of data every day — and the torrent is only increasing.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2019
  • Even better, the new Xbox Series S in black comes with up to one terabyte of storage, which is a lot for a digital-only console.
    — Zoë Hannah, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2023
  • The laptop offers a full terabyte of storage that can handle large files stored on your computer.
    — Ellen McAlpine, Good Housekeeping, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Even with the decryption key, each terabyte has taken about 12 hours to recover.
    — Frances Robles, New York Times, 7 July 2019
  • The next step, Cau said, is to keep analyzing the six terabytes of scan data the scientists pulled form this single fossil.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Schneier says that 76 exabytes (76 million terabytes) of data will travel across the Internet this year—data that states and corporations can use for their own purposes.
    — Bhaskar Chakravorti, Foreign Affairs, 7 July 2015

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