Prefixes for bit and byte
Decimal Value SI 10001 k kilo- 10002 M mega- 10003 G giga- 10004 T tera- 10005 P peta- 10006 E exa- 10007 Z zetta- 10008 Y yotta-	Binary Value FOLDOC IEC 10241 K kilo- Ki kibi- 10242 M mega- Mi mebi- 10243 G giga- Gi gibi- 10244 T tera- Ti tebi- 10245 P peta- Pi pebi- 10246 E exa- Ei exbi- 10247 Z zetta- Zi zebi- 10248 Y yotta- Yi yobi-

A gibibyte (a contraction of giga binary byte) is a unit of information or computer storage, abbreviated GiB^[1].

1 gibibyte = 2³⁰ bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 mebibytes

The gibibyte is closely related to the gigabyte, which can either be a synonym for gibibyte, or refer to 10⁹ bytes = 1,000,000,000 bytes, depending on context (see binary prefix).

See also

• Gigabyte
• Gigabit
• Megabyte
• Terabyte
• Binary prefix
• SI prefix
• IEEE 1541
• JEDEC memory standards
• Orders of magnitude (data)

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