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Yobibyte vs Yottabyte - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between yobibyte and yottabyte

is that yobibyte is 280 bytes while yottabyte is one septillion (1024) bytes. SI symbol: YB.

yobibyte

English

Noun

(wikipedia yobibyte) (en noun)
  • 280 bytes

    • Usage notes

    *Sometimes used in place of yottabyte

    yottabyte

    English

    (wikipedia 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 ----