exabyte

ex·a·byte

E5265850 (ĕk′sə-bīt′)n. Abbr. EB1. A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 petabytes (2⁶⁰ bytes).2. One quintillion (10¹⁸) bytes.

exabyte

(ˈɛksəˌbaɪt) n (Units) computing 10¹⁸ or 2⁶⁰ bytes

ex•a•byte

(ˈɛk səˌbaɪt)

n. Computers. 1. 2⁶⁰ (1,152,921,504,606,846,976) bytes; 1024 petabytes. 2. 10¹⁸, or one quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000), bytes; 1000 petabytes. [1995–2000]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	exabyte - a unit of information equal to 1000 petabytes or 10^18 bytesEBcomputer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memorypetabyte, PB - a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 byteszettabyte, ZB - a unit of information equal to 1000 exabytes or 10^21 bytes
	2.	exabyte - a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytesEiB, exbibyte, EBcomputer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memorypebibyte, PiB, petabyte, PB - a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 byteszebibyte, ZiB, zettabyte, ZB - a unit of information equal to 1024 exbibytes or 2^70 bytes

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exabyte

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Exabyte

(company, storage)A company and, by extension, a tape formatfor computer data backup and transfer. The tape is a dataquality 8mm video cassette recorder tape. Exabyte units canstore between five and fourteen gigabytes of data per tape.Exabytes are usually attached to Unix workstations.

exabyte

(unit)2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes = 1024petabytes or roughly 10^18 bytes.

See prefix.

exabyte

(1) One quintillion bytes. Also EB, Ebyte and E-byte. For example, Cisco reported 30 EB of global mobile data in 2014 and forecast nearly 10 times that much for 2019. See exa, binary values and space/time.

(2) (Exabyte Corporation, Boulder, CO, www.exabyte.com) Founded in 1985, for many years it was one of the world's leading providers of tape drives and tape storage products. Its high-capacity 8mm tape drives, introduced in 1987, have long been sold through OEM and reseller partners. Exabyte used to offer QIC and DAT drives from acquisitions made in the early 1990s.

2006 Acquisition
In late 2006, Norway-based Tandberg Data, itself a well-known manufacturer of archival and storage products, acquired Exabyte and all rights to its breakthrough VXA packet technology.

The VXA Alliance
Along with Imation, Sony and TDK, Exabyte was a founding member of the VXA Alliance, an industry group that focuses on the VXA packet tape format. VXA is a technology that restores and backs up data by reading and writing discrete packets, rather than by sequential linear tracking. Fourth generation VXA products double data capacity to 640GB (compressed) with a data transfer rate of 48MB per second. For more information, visit www.vxa.com

exabyte

Related to exabyte: Yottabyte

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Synonyms for exabyte

noun a unit of information equal to 1000 petabytes or 10^18 bytes

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Related Words

computer memory unit
petabyte
PB
zettabyte
ZB

noun a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes

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EiB
exbibyte
EB

Related Words

computer memory unit
pebibyte
PiB
petabyte
PB
zebibyte
ZiB
zettabyte
ZB