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Pebibyte vs Mebibyte - What's the difference?

pebibyte | mebibyte |

As nouns the difference between pebibyte and mebibyte

is that pebibyte is 250 bytes while mebibyte is 220 (1,048,576) bytes. Abbreviated MiB.

pebibyte

English

Noun

(wikipedia pebibyte) (en noun)
  • 250 bytes

    • Usage notes

    *Sometimes used in place of petabyte

    mebibyte

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) 220 (1,048,576) bytes. Abbreviated MiB.

    • Related terms

    * megabyte * kibibyte * gibibyte

    References

    * (wikipedia "mebibyte") * The IEC explanation of its definitions