Worldwide data storage hardware sales saw a boon in the first quarter of this year, with a 41.4% leap over the same quarter in 2014.

In all, 28.3 exabytes (or 28 billion gigabytes) of capacity shipped out during the quarter, according to IDC’s Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Market Update released today.

How much is an exabyte? It’s one quintillion bytes or a one followed by 18 zeros. It’s a lot.

According to IDC, worldwide enterprise storage systems vendor revenue grew 6.8% year over year during the first quarter, to almost $8.8 billion.

The robust quarter followed a busy end-of-year spending environment as the enterprise storage market “fell back into what has become a familiar market pattern.

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