Terabytes (TB) to Exabytes (EB) Conversion
Terabytes
The terabyte (TB) is a unit of digital information equal to 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (10¹² bytes) in SI decimal, or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes in binary convention. Consumer hard drives and SSDs are now commonly sold in 1–4 TB capacities. The entire text collection of the US Library of Congress is estimated at approximately 20 TB. In data centres, individual server storage arrays routinely exceed hundreds of terabytes.
Exabytes
The exabyte (EB) is a unit of digital information equal to 10¹⁸ bytes (1,000 petabytes). It represents the scale of total global data creation and consumption. According to IDC estimates, the global datasphere — the total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed — surpassed 100 zettabytes (100,000 exabytes) per year in the early 2020s. The exabyte is primarily a unit of planning and forecasting at the level of cloud providers and national data infrastructure.
| Terabytes (TB) | Exabytes (EB) |
|---|---|
| 0.1 TB | 1.0E-7 EB |
| 1 TB | 1.0E-6 EB |
| 2 TB | 2.0E-6 EB |
| 3 TB | 3.0E-6 EB |
| 5 TB | 5.0E-6 EB |
| 10 TB | 1.0E-5 EB |
| 20 TB | 2.0E-5 EB |
| 30 TB | 3.0E-5 EB |
| 50 TB | 5.0E-5 EB |
| 100 TB | 0.0001 EB |
| 1000 TB | 0.001 EB |