exabyte

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

exabyte
    n 1: a unit of information equal to 1000 petabytes or 10^18
         bytes [syn: {exabyte}, {EB}]
    2: a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes
       [syn: {exabyte}, {exbibyte}, {EB}, {EiB}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Exabyte

   <company, storage> A company and, by extension, a tape format
   for computer data backup and transfer.  The tape is a data
   quality 8mm video cassette recorder tape.  Exabyte units can
   store between five and fourteen {gigabytes} of data per tape.
   Exabytes are usually attached to {Unix} {workstations}.

   [What different tape capacities exist?  Compare with DAT?]

   (1995-07-06)

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

exabyte

   <unit> 2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 {bytes} = 1024
   {petabytes} or roughly 10^18 bytes.

   See {prefix}.

   (1996-08-12)

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