exabyte

Definitions

1. One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.
2. An exbibyte.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“Altogether, the human brain is estimated to hold⟳ something in the order⟳ of 200 exabytes of information.”

“North American cloud traffic in 2015 measured 1.891 exabytes per year, in the Asia Pacific 908 exabytes per year, […]”

“In 2010, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, stated: “There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days” (Schmidt, 2010). Schmidt's forecast, indeed, proved to be an underestimation.”

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