Term of the Moment
AI training vs. inference
Definition: petabyte
One quadrillion bytes. Also PB, Pbyte and P-byte. In 2012, Facebook indicated that it stored 100 petabytes of member data. See Petabyte Age, peta, brontobyte, Hadoop, binary values, petabit and space/time.
Hard to Imagine
Twenty-Megabyte Hard Disk
A large datacenter holds petabytes of data in all of its drives combined. However, we have a long way to go for a single storage drive to hold just one petabyte.
In 1984, people were amazed at how much the hard disk on IBM's new PC AT could hold. (Image courtesy of IBM.)