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Tebibyte vs Petabyte - What's the difference?

tebibyte | petabyte |

As nouns the difference between tebibyte and petabyte

is that tebibyte is tebibyte (240 bytes) while petabyte is petabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes).

tebibyte

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncommon, SI) Strictly, 240 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes, as opposed to a terabyte.

    • References

    * The IEC explanation of its definitions

    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