exabyte
noun/ˈɛksəbaɪt/
Etymology From exa- + byte.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.
- Altogether, the human brain is estimated to hold something in the order of 200 exabytes of information.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan, published 2020, page 4:
- North American cloud traffic in 2015 measured 1.891 exabytes per year, in the Asia Pacific 908 exabytes per year, […]2019, Andreas Hepp, Deep Mediatization: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies, Routledge, →ISBN:
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- 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.2021, Giuseppe Arbia, quoting Eric Schmidt, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, →ISBN, pages 4–5:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Informal An exbibyte.
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