exabyte

[ ek-suh-bahyt ]

noun

, Computers.

1. 2 60 bytes, or 1,024 petabytes.
2. (loosely) 10 18 or a billion billion bytes. : EB

exabyte

/ ˈɛksəˌbaɪt /

noun

1. computing 10 ¹⁸or 2 ⁶⁰bytes

Word History and Origins

Origin of exabyte¹

exa- + byte

Example Sentences

According to the company’s current assessment, there would be a shortage of at least 6.5 exabytes in flash storage availability.

From Reuters

At that point, it’ll contain some 16,000 total GPUs and will be able to train AI systems “with more than a trillion parameters on data sets as large as an exabyte.”

From The Verge

“We built out all of these custom tools and work in order to handle exabytes of data,” Zander said.

From Seattle Times

The brain, holding its “200 exabytes of information, roughly equal to ‘the entire digital content of today’s world.’

From Washington Post

One measure is the amount of information that courses through it: about five exabytes a day.

From The Guardian