The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TERABYTE
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More clues leading to the result TERABYTE
- Amount of data Rab found on Yankee kept by French head
- Quite a few bits and pieces of battery storing energy
- Developed at last the battery’s storage capacity
- French head secures drawer maybe, alongside storage unit
- TB virus could destroy so much
- Lots of GB society bare torsos, some getting reaction
- A better alternative to contain ultimately, pulmonary TB
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The straight part
We know that "Quite a few bits" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case quite a few bits = terabyte.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does TERABYTE mean?
TERABYTE noun- One trillion (1012, or 1,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: TB.
- Imprecisely, a tebibyte or 10244 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes. SI symbol: TiB, computing symbol: TB.