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Petabyte vs Petabit - What's the difference?

petabyte | petabit |

In computing terms the difference between petabyte and petabit

is that petabyte is 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 while petabit is a unit of information or storage equal to 1015 bits.

As nouns the difference between petabyte and petabit

is that petabyte is one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB while petabit is a unit of information or storage equal to 1015 bits.

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

    petabit

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia petabit) (en noun)
  • (computing) A unit of information or storage equal to 1015 bits

    • See also

    *pebibit