yottabit

9.9

A very large unit of digital information equal to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits

noun
/ˈjɒtəˌbɪt/

Specialized

: yottabit

A yottabit is a large unit of data.

Examples

Storing the world's internet data for a year would require multiple yottabits of capacity.
The new satellite transmits several yottabits of data during its lifetime.
Scientists predict that global data traffic may soon reach the scale of yottabits per year.
How many yottabits are in a zettabit?
Scientists predict that global data traffic may soon reach the scale of yottabits per year.
Storing the world's internet data for a year would require multiple yottabits of capacity.
The new satellite transmits several yottabits of data during its lifetime.

Synonyms

vsyottabit

Specialized

9.9

A very large unit of digital information equal to 10^24 bits

is the full name rather than the symbol notation

Ybit

vsyottabit

Specialized

9.9

A very large unit for digital information equal to 10^24 bits

is the standard full name rather than the short written form

How Much Data

yottabit

Specialized

9.9

petabit

Specialized

7.5

terabit

Specialized

1 5.1

gigabit

Specialized

3 4.0

megabit

Specialized

2 3.7

kilobit

Specialized

1 4.8

bit

Specialized

106 4.4

Surface Forms

yottabit singular

yottabits plural

Morphology

yottabit = bit (transparent) = yotta + bit

This is a straightforward technical formation meaning a quantity of bits scaled by the SI prefix 'yotta-' for 10^24.

Etymology

The word yottabit combines the SI prefix yotta- and the familiar computer unit bit. The prefix yotta- was created by scientists to mean '10 followed by 24 zeros', just like kilo- means 'thousand' in kilobyte, so a yottabit is 'one septillion bits'.