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Yb vs Yottabyte - What's the difference?

yb | yottabyte |

As a noun yottabyte is

yottabyte (280 or 1024 bytes).

yb

English

===(en)=== (en-abbr)
  • (knitting) yarn backward
  • * 1997 , Jo Sharp, Knitted sweater style: inspirations in color (page 62)
  • Row 3. P1, yb , sl1 purlwise, yf, pbf, p1.

    yottabyte

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) One septillion (1024) bytes. SI symbol: YB.
  • * 2012 , James Bamford, Wired: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
  • [...] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (1024 bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

    See also

    * yobibyte ----