Zebibyte
The zebibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. It is a member of the set of units with binary prefixes defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission. Its unit symbol is ZiB.
The prefix zebi represents multiplication by 10247, therefore:
The prefix zebi was added to the system of binary prefixes in August 2005.
One zebibyte is equal to eight zebibits.
One thousand twenty-four zebibytes is equal to one yobibyte.Usage examples
In 2019, commercial internal hard drives for the consumer PC market were available up to 16 TB. The available information storage of 1 ZiB is therefore equivalent to approximately 74 million of the largest hard drives available on consumer PCs.
