Exabyte facts for kids
An exabyte (EB) is a super-large unit of measurement for computer data. It helps us understand how much information can be stored. Imagine a huge digital library; an exabyte is like a whole section of that library!
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What is an Exabyte?
An exabyte is a massive amount of digital information. It's used to measure very big data storage, like what huge companies or the internet itself might hold. Think of it as a way to count how many digital "things" can fit in one place.
How Big is an Exabyte?
One exabyte is equal to 1,000 petabytes (PB). To give you an idea of how much that is, one exabyte contains a million trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes! That's a 1 followed by 18 zeros.
To store just one exabyte of data, you would need about one million powerful home computers working together. It's an incredible amount of information!
Exabytes and Other Units
Just like how 1,000 grams make a kilogram, data units also have bigger steps. One thousand exabytes make one zettabyte. This shows how computer storage units keep getting bigger as technology advances and we create more and more data.
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A robot thinking about big data.
