ZB

Units & Measurements abbreviation · Data Unit

ZB
Stands forZettabyte
CategoriesUnits & Measurements

ZB stands for Zettabyte, a data unit abbreviation.

10^21 bytes, a billion terabytes, the unit for estimates of all data created, captured and copied worldwide, which analysts now put in the low hundreds of zettabytes per year.

Example: Analysts forecast global data creation will exceed 200 ZB a year before the end of the decade.

Usage notes

Cisco announced the start of the "zettabyte era" in 2016, when annual global IP traffic passed 1 ZB. Most data created each year is never stored long term. The binary counterpart is the zebibyte (ZiB, 2^70 bytes).

More data unit abbreviations

  • b – Bit
  • bps – Bits per second
  • dpi – Dots per inch
  • DWPD – Drive writes per day
  • EB – Exabyte
  • EiB – Exbibyte
  • FLOPS – Floating-point operations per second
  • FPS – Frames per second
  • GB – Gigabyte
  • Gbps – Gigabits per second
  • GiB – Gibibyte
  • GT/s – Gigatransfers per second

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