How to Use terabyte in a Sentence

terabyte

noun
  • The 8 terabytes of storage are enough to hold plenty of games.
    — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
  • There were so many overdubs, the album folder grew to half a terabyte.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2022
  • It can also be configured with as much as 4 terabytes of space for the first time.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Most laptop hard drives can range in memory from about half a terabyte to two terabytes.
    — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2021
  • For each model, one time point might be half a terabyte, and there are millions of time steps in each heartbeat.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2024
  • Our terabytes are finally put to use for the betterment of mankind.
    — David Rutland, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2020
  • Phil Reynolds, an engineer, showed me to a table where a four-terabyte drive lay open.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Those sensors generate more than a terabyte and a half of data each race weekend.
    — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 29 June 2022
  • This can culminate in upwards of a hundred terabytes of data in the form of images per day.
    — Carlos Melendez, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Customers should get an email alert once their usage reaches 85 percent of a terabyte.
    — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 29 June 2017
  • The higher end models (with four ports) can be configured up to 2 terabytes of storage.
    — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Some of them record terabytes of data every day—and the torrent is only increasing.
    — Wired, 17 Mar. 2019
  • Terabyte for terabyte, then, Dropbox charges more than most of its competitors.
    — Justin Pot, PC Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Beek said his company plans to charge $5,000 a month to store three terabytes of data.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Some of them record terabytes of data every day — and the torrent is only increasing.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2019
  • That year’s end-of-term crawl collected more than 15 terabytes — and the data grabs have steadily grown since.
    — Leslie Katz, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Lapsus$ claims to have obtained as much as four terabytes of data in total, including source code and database records.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The master plan, on the other hand, is $3,750 monthly for up to two terabytes of data.
    — PC Magazine, 29 July 2025
  • In all, prosecutors said about one terabyte of evidence would be available on a rolling basis.
    — Mark Morales, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The group stole six terabytes of data and demanded a $22 million ransom for its release.
    — Raymond Umerley, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • An unknown number of internet users have downloaded the terabytes of data in the weeks since its release.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Now, the archive is saving closer to 150 terabytes, or hundreds of millions worth of web pages, per day.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
  • The electronic holdings at the archives are around 835 terabytes.
    — Sean Catangui, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • The difference, Singhal said, is an increase from 64 terabytes to 4 petabytes in the new cores.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 12 Dec. 2018
  • These systems can generate hundreds of terabytes of raw data per day that must be transmitted to Earth.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 June 2026
  • This one from Western Digital has options that go up to 20 terabytes.
    — Brenda Stolyar, Wired News, 9 May 2025
  • As part of those investigations, his team combed through thousands of terabytes of abhorrent pictures.
    — Charlotte Alter, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Top-of-the-line tapes can hold up to 15 terabytes and can be archived in third-party locations at a fraction of the cost of cheapest cloud storage.
    — Rob Sloan, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Since this is Google Earth, though, all the text and images get overlaid on top of Google's terabytes of Earth imagery.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2019
  • In total, the team analyzed 1 petabyte worth of data and compiled 219 terabytes worth of data.
    — Fox News, 20 June 2019

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