Gibibyte

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Quantities of bytes
Common prefix				Binary prefix
Name	Symbol	Decimal SI	Binary JEDEC	Name	Symbol	Binary IEC
kilobyte	KB/kB	10³	2¹⁰	kibibyte	KiB	2¹⁰
megabyte	MB	10⁶	2²⁰	mebibyte	MiB	2²⁰
gigabyte	GB	10⁹	2³⁰	gibibyte	GiB	2³⁰
terabyte	TB	10¹²	2⁴⁰	tebibyte	TiB	2⁴⁰
petabyte	PB	10¹⁵	2⁵⁰	pebibyte	PiB	2⁵⁰
exabyte	EB	10¹⁸	2⁶⁰	exbibyte	EiB	2⁶⁰
zettabyte	ZB	10²¹	2⁷⁰	zebibyte	ZiB	2⁷⁰
yottabyte	YB	10²⁴	2⁸⁰	yobibyte	YiB	2⁸⁰

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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).