exabyte

3 definitions found

exabyte - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

exabyte - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

  exabyte
  
     <unit> 2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes = 1024
     petabytes or roughly 10^18 bytes.
  
     See prefix.
  
     (1996-08-12)