Terabytes (TB) to Terabits (Tbit) Conversion
Terabytes
The terabyte (TB) is a unit of digital information equal to 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (10¹² bytes) in SI decimal, or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes in binary convention. Consumer hard drives and SSDs are now commonly sold in 1–4 TB capacities. The entire text collection of the US Library of Congress is estimated at approximately 20 TB. In data centres, individual server storage arrays routinely exceed hundreds of terabytes.
Terabits
The terabit (Tbit) is a unit of digital information equal to 1,000,000,000,000 bits (10¹² bits). It is used to express the capacity of high-speed backbone network links and submarine cables: major undersea cables connecting continents operate at capacities measured in terabits per second (Tbps). One terabit per second equals 125 gigabytes per second — the scale of internet exchange points and national backbone infrastructure.
| Terabytes (TB) | Terabits (Tbit) |
|---|---|
| 0.1 TB | 0.8 Tbit |
| 1 TB | 8 Tbit |
| 2 TB | 16 Tbit |
| 3 TB | 24 Tbit |
| 5 TB | 40 Tbit |
| 10 TB | 80 Tbit |
| 20 TB | 160 Tbit |
| 30 TB | 240 Tbit |
| 50 TB | 400 Tbit |
| 100 TB | 800 Tbit |
| 1000 TB | 8000 Tbit |