Gibibyte
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The gibibyte is a standards-based binary multiple (prefix gibi, symbol Gi) of the byte, a unit of digital information storage. The gibibyte unit symbol is GiB.[1]
The gibibyte is closely related to the gigabyte, which is defined as 109 bytes = 1000000000bytes, but has been used as a synonym for gibibyte in some contexts (see binary prefix.) In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB.
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| SI decimal prefixes | IEC binary prefixes | |||
| Name (Symbol) |
Value | Name (Symbol) |
Value | |
| kilobyte (kB) | 103 | kibibyte (KiB) | 210 = 1.024 × 103 | |
| megabyte (MB) | 106 | mebibyte (MiB) | 220 ≈ 1.049 × 106 | |
| gigabyte (GB) | 109 | gibibyte (GiB) | 230 ≈ 1.074 × 109 | |
| terabyte (TB) | 1012 | tebibyte (TiB) | 240 ≈ 1.100 × 1012 | |
| petabyte (PB) | 1015 | pebibyte (PiB) | 250 ≈ 1.126 × 1015 | |
| exabyte (EB) | 1018 | exbibyte (EiB) | 260 ≈ 1.153 × 1018 | |
| zettabyte (ZB) | 1021 | zebibyte (ZiB) | 270 ≈ 1.181 × 1021 | |
| yottabyte (YB) | 1024 | yobibyte (YiB) | 280 ≈ 1.209 × 1024 | |
| See also: Multiples of bits · Orders of magnitude of data | ||||
[edit] References
- ^ "Prefixes for binary multiples". NIST. 2007. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html. Retrieved 10 August 2007.
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