Terabit

Shorthand for 1,000,000,000,000 (1012) bits.

The SNIA uses the base 10 convention commonly found in I/O-related and scientific literature rather than the base 2 convention (1,099,511,627,776, i.e., 240) common in computer system and software literature.

See also Tebibit.

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