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The byte has been a commonly used unit of measure for much of the information age to refer to a number of bits.In the early days of computing, it was used for differing numbers of bits based on convention and computer hardware design, but today means 8 bits.
1 TB: The size of a $30 hard disk (as of early 2024) 6 TB: The size of a $100 hard disk (as of early 2022) 16 TB: The size of a small/cheap $130 (as of early 2024) enterprise SAS hard disk drive; 24 TB: The size of $440 (as of early 2024) "video" hard disk drive; 32 TB: Largest hard disk drive (as of mid-2024)
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. 1 byte (B) = 8 bits (bit).Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer [1] [2] and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures.
Software reports hard disk drive or memory capacity in different forms using either decimal or binary prefixes. The Microsoft Windows family of operating systems uses the binary convention when reporting storage capacity, so an HDD offered by its manufacturer as a 1 TB drive is reported by these operating systems as a 931 GB HDD.
Mass storage devices are usually measured in decimal SI multiples, for example 1 TB = bytes. Confusingly, the storage capacity of a directly-addressable memory device, such as a DRAM chip, or an assemblage of such chips on a memory module, is specified as a binary multiple -- using the ambiguous prefix G rather than the IEC recommended Gi prefix.
HDDs, as of early 2018, were priced around $0.02 to $0.03 per gigabyte for 1 TB models. [23] Storage capacity By 2018, SSDs were available in sizes up to 100 TB, [24] though lower-cost models typically ranged from 120 GB to 512 GB. HDDs of up to 30 TB were available by 2023. [25] Reliability – data retention
A lawsuit decided in 2019 that arose from alleged breach of contract and other claims over the binary and decimal definitions used for "gigabyte" have ended in favour of the manufacturers, with courts holding that the legal definition of gigabyte or GB is 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 (10 9) bytes (the decimal definition). Specifically, the courts held ...
In January 2013, tech company Kingston, released a flash drive with 1 TB of storage. [24] The first USB 3.1 type-C flash drives, with read/write speeds of around 530 MB/s, were announced in March 2015. [25] By July 2016, flash drives with 8 to 256 GB capacity were sold more frequently than those with capacities between 512 GB and 1 TB.