Gibibyte

The gibibyte is a standards-based binary multiple (prefix gibi, symbol Gi) of the byte, a unit of digital information storage. The gibibyte unit symbol is GiB.^[1]

1 gibibyte = 2³⁰ bytes = 1073741824bytes = 1024 mebibytes

The gibibyte is closely related to the gigabyte, which is defined as 10⁹ bytes = 1000000000bytes, but has been used as a synonym for gibibyte in some contexts (see binary prefix.) In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB.

See also

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

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