Eib (Noun)
Meaning
A unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The new hard drive had a capacity of 1 eib, which was more than enough to store the company's entire database.
- The researchers had to compress their dataset to fit it within the 0.5 eib limit imposed by the journal.
- The data center's total storage capacity was measured in exabytes, but their architects opted to use eib for more precise calculations.
- Transferring a full eib of data over the internet would take an impractically long time, even with the fastest connections.
- Despite its size, the 0.25 eib update to the software was mandatory for security reasons and therefore couldn't be skipped.