Pebibyte

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What Does Pebibyte Mean?

A pebibyte (PiB) is a unit of digital information storage used to denote the size of data. It is equivalent to 250, or 1,125,899,906,842,624, bytes and equal to 1,024 tebibytes.

Techopedia Explains Pebibyte

Pebibyte is related to a petabyte, which is equal to 1015, or 1,000,000,000,000,000, bytes. It comes before exbibyte and after tebibyte.

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