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Yottabyte vs Gigabyte - What's the difference?

yottabyte | gigabyte |

As nouns the difference between yottabyte and gigabyte

is that yottabyte is one septillion (1024) bytes. SI symbol: YB while gigabyte is 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB.

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 ----

    gigabyte

    English

    (wikipedia gigabyte)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
  • * 1981 , IBM, IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide , page 1
    • The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage.
  • (computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.

    • Coordinate terms

    * Previous: megabyte * Next: terabyte

    Related terms

    * gibibyte * gigabit

    Synonyms

    * gig

    References

    * The IEC explanation of its definitions ----