{"id":4350,"date":"2012-05-15T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T10:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/exbibyte\/"},"modified":"2012-05-28T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T12:27:07","slug":"exbibyte","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/5248\/exbibyte-eib","title":{"rendered":"Exbibyte"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_exbibyte_mean\">What Does Exbibyte Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>An exbibyte (EiB) is a unit of digital information storage used to denote the size of data. It is equivalent to 2<sup>60,<\/sup> or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976, bytes and equal to 1,024 pebibytes.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_exbibyte\">Techopedia Explains Exbibyte<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Exbibyte is related to an exabyte, which is equal to 10<sup>18<\/sup>, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, bytes. Exbibyte comes before zebibyte and after pebibyte. 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