exabyte

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a unit of storage capacity, either 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 (260) bytes, the latter can be unambiguously referred to by the unit name exbibyte
Approximately one quintillion bytes, or one billion billion bytes
{i} one billion gigabytes, very large unit of data storage capacity
A type of digital tape storage medium [BACK]
A type of data tape on which data is received
1 quadrillion bytes or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes
A tape format on which satellite imagery may be supplied
(1) 2 to the 60th power (1,152,921,504,606,846,976) bytes An exabyte is equal to 1,024 petabytes (2) When capitalized, the name of a manufacturer of mass storage devices (Source: http: //webopedia internet com/ )
An 8-millimeter, two gigabyte tape drive providing substantial data storage and archiving on a small cartridge It is more cost effective than standard magnetic tapes, as fewer Exabyte tapes are required to store information
(1) For processor storage, real and virtual storage, and channel volume, 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes (2) For disk storage capacity and communications volume, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
A company (and, by extension, a tape format) for computer data backup and transfer onto data quality 8-mm VCR tape Exabyte units can store 5 Gbytes of data per tape