Linux Fundamentals - kibibyes (KiB) vs kilobyes and mebibytes (MiB) vs megabytes (MB)
by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: August 09 2021
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There are a number of similar, but slightly different terms used to represent storage.
- kibibyte (k or KiB) - 1024 bytes
- kilobyte (K or KB) - 1000 bytes
- mebibyte (m or MiB) - 1024 kibibytes
- megabyte (M or MB) - 1000 kilobytes
- gibibyte (g or GiB) - 1024 mebibytes
- gigabyte (G or GB) - 1000 megabytes
- tebibyte (t or TiB) - 1024 gibibytes
- terabyte (T or TB) - 1000 gigabytes
- pibibyte (p or PiB) - 1024 tebibytes
- petabyte (P or PB) - 1000 gigabytes
- exbibyte (e or EiB) - 1024 pibibytes
- exabyte (E or EX) - 1000 petabytes
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