how big is one byte
(A bit is a binary digit, either 0 or 1; a byte is 8 binary digits long): 1  If you counted all the bits in one petabyte at one bit per second, itâd take 285 million years. 2  If you counted one byte per second, it would take 35.7 million years. 3  It would take 223,000 DVDs (4.7Gb each) to hold 1Pb.