: a unit of computer information or data-storage capacity that consists of a group of eight bits and that is used especially to represent an alphanumeric character compare word entry 1 sense 10
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There were over 31 million edits to the site in 2024 and almost 3.5 billion bytes of information were added, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.
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John Towfighi, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024
Of course, bytes on a spinning disk drive accessed serially by a computer are not densely interconnected the way synapses are inside of a brain, so this remarkable amount of information storage has not been combined to emulate even one brain, much less 10 million.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2015
The global Internet is presently estimated to carry about 88 exabytes (that is, 88 × 1018 bytes) of traffic per month, which is predicted to double in three years, with no saturation in sight.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2015
Sequential read and write performance are 14.6 GB/s and 3.3 GB/s and random read and write performance are 3M IOPS at 4K bytes per block and 35K IOPS at 16K bytes per block.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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John Towfighi, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024
Of course, bytes on a spinning disk drive accessed serially by a computer are not densely interconnected the way synapses are inside of a brain, so this remarkable amount of information storage has not been combined to emulate even one brain, much less 10 million.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2015
The global Internet is presently estimated to carry about 88 exabytes (that is, 88 × 1018 bytes) of traffic per month, which is predicted to double in three years, with no saturation in sight.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2015
Sequential read and write performance are 14.6 GB/s and 3.3 GB/s and random read and write performance are 3M IOPS at 4K bytes per block and 35K IOPS at 16K bytes per block.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Byte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/byte. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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byte
noun
: a group of eight bits that a computer handles as a unit
Etymology
possibly an altered form of bite
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