exabytes

Billion billion bytes

Exabytes is the plural of exabyte, a unit of digital storage equal to one quintillion bytes (10^18) or, in binary terms, 2^60 bytes.

The prefix exa- denotes a billion billion.

Exabytes measure data at civilization scale—global internet traffic, the total holdings of major cloud providers: Facebook stores several exabytes of user data.

storage

datacenter

Facility housing networked computers

cloud storageOnline data preservation service
backupStored duplicate for recovery
archiveStored historical records

server farms · database · repository · SAN · NAS · SSD · HDD · capacity · scalability · infrastructure

scale

astronomical

Relating to outer space

massiveExtremely large and heavy
vastExtremely great in size
immenseExtremely large in scope

unfathomable · exponential growth · big data

traffic

bandwidth

Data transmission capacity

data transferMoving information electronically
streamingReal-time digital delivery
downloadsFiles received electronically

uploads · mobile data · CDN

magnitude

petabytes

Huge data measurement unit

zettabytesSextillion bytes measure
yottabytesSeptillion-scale storage measurement
terabytesTrillion-byte units

gigabytes · megabytes · kilobytes · bits · SI prefixes · measurement · scale · orders of magnitude · quantification · notation

Opposites

data magnitude scale

exabytesbits

Small portions or pieces

bytes · kilobytes · nibbles · megabytes · gigabytes

Family

exabyte

Familiarity: Top 500,000
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