Exabyte

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Exabyte
       
           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 {gigabyte}s of data per tape.


          Exabytes are usually attached to {Unix} {workstation}s.
       
          [What different tape capacities exist?  Compare with DAT?]
       
          (1995-07-06)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

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