Measurement unit conversion: gibibyte

›› Measurement unit: gibibyte

Full name: gibibyte

Plural form: gibibytes

Symbol: GiB

Category type: computer data storage

Scale factor: 1073741824

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›› Definition: Gibibyte

The gibibyte (a contraction of giga binary byte) is a unit of digital information storage. It is equal to 1,024 mebibytes.

Note that this site defines the gigabyte as 2³⁰ bytes, equivalent to the gibibyte. Some sites define the gigabyte as 10⁹ bytes to distinguish it from the gibibyte, but most users prefer the non-SI form.

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