Pebibyte

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Prefixes for bit and byte
Decimal Value SI 10001 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 10241 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-

A pebibyte (a contraction of peta binary byte) is a unit of information or computer storage, abbreviated PiB.

1 pebibyte = 2⁵⁰ bytes = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes = 1,024 tebibytes

The pebibyte is closely related to the petabyte, which can either be used as a popular synonym for pebibyte, or to refer to 10¹⁵ bytes = 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes, depending on context (see binary prefix).

[edit] See also

• Petabyte
• Pebibit
• tebibyte
• Exbibyte
• Binary prefix
• SI prefix
• IEEE 1541
• Orders of magnitude (data)

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