Exabyte Definition


An exabyte (EB) is a measurement unit for digital information storage and data capacity, and it equals one quintillion bytes. To put it in perspective, one exabyte is equivalent to 1,024 petabytes, 1,048,576 terabytes, or 1,073,741,824 gigabytes. 'In the International System of Units (SI), an exabyte translates to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.

Exabytes used for dealing with vast amounts of data, like the storage capacities of data centers, cloud storage, and global data traffic.