What is terabyte (decimal)?

A terabyte in the decimal system is a data unit equal to 1,000 gigabytes. It is the standard unit used by hard drive and SSD manufacturers, cloud storage providers, and for internet traffic measurement.

What is byte?

A byte is a fundamental unit of digital information, typically comprising 8 bits. It is the standard unit for measuring file size, storage capacity, and data transfer quantities in computing.

Worked examples

1 terabyte (decimal) = 1.000000e+12 byte

1 byte = 1 byte