1 exabyte
1 EBData · definition
Decimal kB, MB and GB use powers of 1,000. KiB, MiB and GiB use powers of 1,024. The content of a file depends on encoding and compression.
Data & storage
Just how much data is 1 exabyte?
Global scale
1 EB
BYTES OF DATA
1 exabyte
Decimal kB, MB and GB use powers of 1,000.
1 EBData
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An exabyte archive
An exabyte archive is a digital storage system capable of holding extremely large datasets, often used by major organisations or data centres.
1 EBData
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Bar length represents bytes. The physical sizes of devices are schematic; encoding and compression affect file sizes.
A little perspective
1 exabyte is approximately equal to the data size of an exabyte archive.
Measurements, assumptions & sources +
1 exabyte
Data: 1 EB; definition.
Decimal kB, MB and GB use powers of 1,000. KiB, MiB and GiB use powers of 1,024. The content of a file depends on encoding and compression.
An exabyte archive
Data: 1 EB; example.
A defined 1 EB decimal data amount; no claim about a named service.
Defined examples — our methodology
The marked data is calibrated. Unmeasured illustration details are representative.
Measurement details
Why these numbers?
Compare 1 exabyte with the data size of an exabyte archive. The notes below explain how each value was chosen.
An exabyte archive
1 EBData · example
A defined 1 EB decimal data amount; no claim about a named service.
- Comparing
- Data ↔ Data
- Relative size
- 1 exabyte is approximately equal to the data size of an exabyte archive.
How to read the visual
The diagram uses the recorded measurements. Details outside the marked spans do not set the scale.
- The data size of an exabyte archive: This is an illustrative comparison value, not a claim that every example is the same.
Data size depends on encoding and compression; decimal GB and binary GiB are different units.
1 × 10¹⁸ Bbytes
1 × 10⁹ GBgigabytes
931,320,000 GiBgibibytes
1,000,000 TBterabytes
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