a yottabyte is a spetillion byte ...

[Andre Kesteloot]

A 2012 article in /Wired/ reported that NSA needs the megaplex [in Utah] 
partially because the Pentagon wants to expand the military global 
communications network to manage yottabytes of data. "A yottabyte is a 
septillion bytes---so large that no one has yet coined a term for the 
next higher magnitude," the article said. "Should the agency ever fill 
the Utah center with a yottabyte of information, it would be equal to 
about 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text." NSA 
officials told /Government Executive/, however, they do not discuss such 
operational details.

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2013/07/nsas-big-dig/67406/


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