An exabyte is a unit of information or computer storage equal to 1 quintillion bytes.

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Say goodbye to the gigabyte and hello to the exabyte, five of which are worth 37, 000 Libraries of Congress .

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In 2009, the McKinsey Global Institute estimated that U.S. banks and capital markets firms collectively had more than one exabyte of stored data.

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An exabyte is the digital equivalent of a trillion novels.

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The amount of mobile data traffic generated by tablets in 2016 (1 exabyte per month) will be four times the total amount of monthly global mobile data traffic in 2010 (237 petabytes per month).

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We're not entirely sure how this is done, but the camera allegedly streams around 1 million terabytes (that's an exabyte, folks) of video, which adds up to roughly 5, 000 hours of HD footage per day.

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One exabyte is a billion gigabytes.

BBC: Global data storage calculated at 295 exabytes