What is a Yottabyte? With a magazine named Yottabytes, we were destined to answer this question.
In fact, we were told by our content manager that this should be the first post on this blog, but we still took our time before we could post this one.
Now we will try to explain storage units to you. You usually have storage in GBs and TBs these days: GB stands for a Gigabyte and TB for a TeraByte.
You already have a fair idea of how much data is 1 Terabyte. The question is how far Yottabyte is from Terabyte. It is pretty easy to remember, though. Since you know TB, you can remember that after Terabyte comes petabyte. Next is exabyte, then zettabyte and Yottabyte.
Numerically it’s easy too:
1 Petabyte = 1000 TeraBytes,
then 1 Exabyte is 1000 Petabytes,
Zettabyte = 1000 Exabytes,
and finally, Yottabytes is 1000 Exabytes.
To get an idea of how large a Yottabyet is, let’s put it into some known storage mediums.
Just as an example, if we were to put Yottabytess of data in DVDs, a yottabyte would require 250 trillion DVDs.
A yottabyte of storage would require approximately a million data centres, and the physical space required for the servers would fill the states of Delaware and Rhode Island.
So you must understand that the Yottabyte is still a theoretical measure that might be possible in the future. No storage capacity today compares to it, really.
To put things in perspective 1 Yottabyte would be written in decimal system as 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176.
According to projections from Statista, 74 zettabytes of data will be created in 2024.
Why is this magazine called Yottabytes?
Well, by now, you should have made the connection, but just to spell it out, we intend to create a magazine as futuristic as Yottabyte. We are not there yet, but we will be there by the time the world produces Yottabytes of data.