Pebibyte

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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 pebibyte (a contraction of petabinary byte, pronounced PEH-bee-byte) is a standards-based binary multiple (prefix pebi-, symbol Pi-) of the byte, a unit of digital information storage. The pebibyte unit symbol is PiB.

1 pebibyte = 2⁵⁰ bytes = 1125899906842624bytes = 1,024 tebibytes

The pebibyte is closely related to the petabyte, which is defined as 10¹⁵ bytes = 1000000000000000bytes (see binary prefix).

[edit] See also

• Orders of magnitude (data)
• SI prefix
• IEEE 1541

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