Terabytes to Terabits conversion

What is a Terabyte

Terabyte, $TB$, is a unit of digital information. Mega is used as a unit prefix in metrics system. It represent a numerical value $10^12$ or $1,000,000,000,000$. List of SI prefix can be found on Wikipidia.

There are two common ways unit of information is represented. One is in decimal (base 10) form and the other is in power of 2 (binary). $Terabyte$ is referring to the base 10 format, unlike $Tebibit$ which is referring to base 2 format.

$$1\,Terabyte => 1\, TB\,(shorthand form)$$

$$1\,TB = 1,000,000,000,000\,byte = 10^12 bytes$$

More examples can be found on Stanford's Kilobytes Megabytes Gigabytes Terabytes article

What is terabits?

A very large unit of measurement!

A terabit (Tb) is a unit of digital information that represents one trillion bits (1,000,000,000,000,000 bits). To put that in perspective:

• 1 bit = 0 or 1
• 1 kilobit (kb) = 1,000 bits
• 1 megabit (Mb) = 1 million bits
• 1 gigabit (Gb) = 1 billion bits
• 1 terabit (Tb) = 1 trillion bits

To make it easier to understand, here are some examples of data sizes in terabits:

• A standard definition Blu-ray disc contains around 50-100 Gb of video. In terabits, that's equivalent to about 0.05-0.1 Tb.
• The entire internet (all websites, emails, etc.) is estimated to contain around 10-15 Zb (zettabytes) of data, which is equivalent to 10,000-15,000 Tb!
• A high-definition movie with multiple audio tracks and surround sound can take up about 20-50 Gb. In terabits, that's around 0.02-0.05 Tb.

Terabits are used in various fields, including:

1. Telecommunications: To describe the capacity of high-speed networks.
2. Data storage: To measure the size of large data repositories, such as cloud storage services or databases.
3. Scientific research: To quantify massive amounts of data generated by experiments and simulations.

Now, I hope you have a better understanding of terabits!