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pebibyte

pebibyte

9.9
A very large unit of digital storage equal to 1,024 tebibytes
  • noun
  • /ˈpɛbɪˌbaɪt/
  • Specialized
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  • A single pebibyte of storage can hold a vast amount of scientific data.

Examples

  • The new archiving system is capable of managing several pebibytes of information.

  • Many organizations have yet to require more than one pebibyte of cloud capacity.

  • The new server has a capacity of 1 pebibyte.

  • How many pebibytes are needed for the backup?

  • One pebibyte of data storage can store thousands of high-definition videos.

  • The university's data center holds over five pebibytes of research data.

  • You will need at least a pebibyte of free space to back up the entire database.

Synonyms

PiB
vspebibyte
  • Specialized
1 9.7

A very large unit for measuring computer storage equal to 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes

is the full written name for the identical binary unit

How Big

YiB
  • Specialized
9.9
exbibyte
  • Specialized
9.9
pebibyte
  • Specialized
9.9
tebibyte
  • Specialized
9.9
gibibyte
  • Specialized
7.1
mebibyte
  • Specialized
8.7
kibibyte
  • Specialized
7.6

Surface Forms

pebibyte singular
pebibytes plural

Morphology

pebibyte = byte (semi-transparent) = pebi + byte

The term is built from the combining form 'pebi-' (an IEC binary prefix) plus 'byte', so it is recognizably a kind of byte but the numeric value of 'pebi-' is technical and not obvious to average learners.

Etymology

Pebibyte comes from the binary prefix pebi- (created to mark the 1024-based step after tebi-) and the familiar computer word byte meaning 'a unit of data'. So a pebibyte is simply a very large amount of digital storage, like a huge version of a megabyte.