Gibibyte

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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

Gibibyte (a contraction of giga binary byte) is a unit of digital information storage, abbreviated GiB^[1].

1 gibibyte = 2³⁰ bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 mebibytes

The gibibyte is closely related to the gigabyte, which can either be a synonym for gibibyte, or refer to 10⁹ bytes = 1,000,000,000 bytes, depending on context (see binary prefix).

[edit] See also

• Gigabyte
• Gigabit
• Megabyte
• Mebibyte
• Terabyte
• Binary prefix
• SI prefix
• IEEE 1541
• JEDEC memory standards
• Orders of magnitude (data)

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