Gibibyte (Noun)
Meaning
A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The new gaming console requires a disk space of at least 128 gibibytes to install the latest update.
- It is estimated that sending one million emails with attachments of average size would use about 100 gibibytes of storage space.
- This new external drive has an impressive capacity of over 2 terabytes or 2048 gibibytes.
- To smoothly run the graphics-intensive game, a minimum of 16 gibibytes of RAM is recommended.
- The new smartphone model comes with an internal storage capacity of 512 gibibytes, which is more than enough for most users.