Exabytes Shipped

The total data-storage capacity a storage vendor shipped in the period, measured in exabytes (an exabyte is a billion gigabytes). It is the volume metric for the storage business -- how much raw capacity went out the door -- and it is read alongside price per terabyte to separate volume growth from pricing. Because storage prices fall steadily as technology improves, a vendor can ship far more capacity (rising exabytes) while revenue is flat or down (falling price), so exabytes shipped reveals the underlying unit demand that a revenue figure alone would hide. Rising AI workloads, which generate and consume enormous datasets, are a major driver of capacity demand.

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