What does YB mean in UNIT MEASURES

A Yottabyte is one of the largest units of digital storage capacity. It stands for 1,000 zettabytes (or 1024^8 bytes). A yottabyte contains one septillion bytes, or one trillion gigabytes. Given its immense size, a yottabyte can contain an extremely large amount of data -- enough to store the entire contents of every book ever written in multiple languages many times over.

Many large organizations like governments or multinational corporations use a system based on YottaBytes to store and manage digital information such as official documents, medical records, customer data, and financial information. Some data centers also make use of this unit for storage in their storage systems.

Yottabytes can be measured either using the binary system (1 yottabyte = 1024^8 bytes) or the metric system (1 yottabyte = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes). Both measurements are commonly accepted and used interchangeably.

The exact capacity depends on how it's being used; however, generally speaking, a single yottabyte can hold approximately one trillion gigabytes worth of information which is equivalent to about 250 billion CDs-worth of data. This means it would take roughly 250 million CDs to store just one yottabyte!

The cost of storing a yottabyte varies greatly depending on the type and size of hardware used as well as whether it's stored locally or remotely via cloud computing services. Generally speaking though, expect to pay anywhere between several hundreds to several thousands dollars per terabyte.

It's estimated that there are around 8 billion books in existence today; each book containing around 300 pages with an average text density of 5 words per line and 40 characters per line gives us roughly 18 million characters per book which makes for roughly 144 trillion words in total. This means approximately 763 books worth of words could be stored on just one single yottabyte.