Exbibyte

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Prefixes for bit and byte multiples
Decimal
Value SI
1000 k kilo
10002 M mega
10003 G giga
10004 T tera
10005 P peta
10006 E exa
10007 Z zetta
10008 Y yotta
Binary
Value IEC JEDEC
1024 Ki kibi K kilo
10242 Mi mebi M mega
10243 Gi gibi G giga
10244 Ti tebi
10245 Pi pebi
10246 Ei exbi
10247 Zi zebi
10248 Yi yobi

The exbibyte (a contraction of exabinary byte, pronounced EX-bee-byte) is a standards-based binary multiple (prefix exbi-, symbol Ei-) of the byte, a unit of digital information storage. The exbibyte unit symbol is EiB.

1 exbibyte = 260 bytes = 1152921504606846976bytes = 1,024 pebibytes

The exbibyte is closely related to the exabyte, which is defined as 1018 bytes = 1000000000000000000bytes (see binary prefix).

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