Gibibit (Noun)
Meaning
A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibits or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bits.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The binary data was measured in gibibits to accurately represent the file's information capacity.
- A single gibibit is a unit of information used in some hard drive and flash drive manufacturers.
- In order to determine storage needs the user calculated their files in gibibits and then converted.
- Their research suggested using gibibits instead of gigabits when describing data storage for supercomputers.
- Several tech companies started representing file sizes in gibibits as well as more commonly known megabytes.