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n. (context computing English) a unit of storage capacity, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) bytes
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The exabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix exa indicates multiplication by the sixth power of 1000 (10) in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one exabyte is one quintillion bytes ( short scale). The symbol for the exabyte is EB.
1 EB = = = = 1000 petabytes = = .A related unit, the exbibyte, using a binary prefix, is equal to (=, about 15% larger.
Exabyte Corp. was a manufacturer of magnetic tape data storage products headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Exabyte Corp. is now defunct, but the company's technology is sold by Tandberg Data under both brand names. Prior to the 2006 demise, Exabyte offered tape storage and automation solutions for servers, workstations, LANs and SANs. Exabyte is best known for introducing the Data8 (8mm) magnetic tape format in 1987. At the time of its demise, Exabyte manufactured VXA and LTO based products. The company controlled VXA technology but did not play a large role in the LTO community.
Usage examples of "exabyte".
Everything meaningful about an individual citizen could be packed into less than an exabyte, and sent as a gamma-ray burst a few milliseconds long.
There are a few exabytes in my memory, and that takes a while to transmit.
Poole could not help wondering if, among all the exabytes that were irretrievably lost, were the records of his own children: even now, his descendants of the thirtieth generation might be walking the Earth.