yobibyte

9.9

A very large unit for computer data equal to 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes

noun
/ˈjoʊbɪˌbaɪt/

Specialized

: yobibyte

A single yobibyte can store an enormous amount of data, far more than today’s largest hard drives.

Examples

Scientists discussed petabyte, exabyte, and even yobibyte archives for storing astronomical data.
The new server can handle up to 5 yobibytes of information.
Cloud storage capacities have not yet reached the yobibyte scale, but future technologies may demand it.
A yobibyte is an enormous amount of data storage.
A single yobibyte can store an enormous amount of data, far more than today’s largest hard drives.
Cloud storage capacities have not yet reached the yobibyte scale, but future technologies may demand it.
The new server can handle up to 5 yobibytes of information.

Synonyms

YiB

vsyobibyte

Specialized

9.9

A very large unit for measuring computer data equal to 1,024 zebibytes

is the full name with the same value rather than the short symbol

vsyobibyte

Specialized

9.9

A very large unit for measuring digital information equal to 1,024 zebibytes

is the formal unit name with the identical numeric value

How Large

yobibyte

Specialized

9.9

zettabyte

Specialized

1 9.5

petabyte

Specialized

2 7.2

terabyte

Specialized

8 4.1

gigabyte

Specialized

13 2.7

megabyte

Specialized

10 3.0

kilobyte

Specialized

4 3.6

Surface Forms

yobibyte singular

yobibytes plural

Morphology

yobibyte = byte (semi-transparent) = yobi + byte

The prefix 'yobi-' is a standardized prefix in computing denoting 2^80, but may not be immediately recognizable to all learners.

Etymology

The word yobibyte is built from the prefix yobi- ('binary') and the familiar unit byte, so it follows the same pattern as smaller names like kibibyte but is much larger. So, a yobibyte means a very, very large number of bytes used to measure huge amounts of digital storage.