An exabyte (EB) is a large unit of computer data storage, two to the sixtieth power bytes. The prefix exa means one billion billion, or one quintillion, which is a decimal term. Two to the sixtieth power is actually 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes in decimal, or somewhat over a quintillion (or 10 to the eighteenth power) bytes. However, it is common to say that an exabyte is approximately one quintillion bytes or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. In decimal terms, an exabyte is a billion gigabytes (GB). Exabytes are a unit of digital storage that is made up of bytes. A byte is comprised of eight bits. A bit is a single unit of data. An exabyte is about the amount of digital information created on the internet each day in 2012. The total data created every day in 2020 is estimated to be 2.5 EB, according to Finances Online. And all the words ever spoken by human beings are said to be 5 EB. How does an exabyte compare to other dat...