Pebibyte vs Petabyte - What's the difference?

pebibyte | petabyte |


As nouns the difference between pebibyte and petabyte

is that pebibyte is 250 bytes while petabyte is (si) one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes si symbol: pb.

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pebibyte

English

Noun

(wikipedia pebibyte) (en noun)
  • 250 bytes

    • Usage notes

    *Sometimes used in place of petabyte

    petabyte

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia petabyte) (en noun)
  • (SI) One quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB.
  • (computing) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 10245, or 250. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a pebibyte. SI symbol: PiB, computing symbol: PB.

    • Coordinate terms

    * Previous: terabyte * Next: exabyte