One exabyte is a billion gigabytes (10¹⁸ bytes). Storage analysts count industry size in exabytes and zettabytes because terabyte-by-terabyte is too small to be useful.
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| Move变动 | Where it appeared出现位置 | What it means这句话在说什么 |
|---|---|---|
| 16.8% | Toshiba just announced a $400 million factory plan. Seagate lost billions in market value. 艾字节 · 第 7 张术语卡 | Why it matters here ▸ Bernstein measured market share in exabytes, which is how it worked out that Toshiba's share would reach 16.8%, not 30%. 换算阶梯：1 KB → 1 MB → 1 GB → 1 TB → 1 PB（拍字节，1000 TB）→ 1 EB（1000 PB）→ 1 ZB（1000 EB）。日常语境里没人会用到 EB，但数据中心规模动辄以 EB 计——718 ZB 的数据量意味着全球要新增大量硬盘。 |