Tib (Noun)
Meaning
A unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The hard drive was advertised as having a capacity of 4 tib, but actual usable space was lower due to formatting.
- Transferring a dataset of that size would take hours, given it was over 2 tib in size.
- To back up her large video collection, she needed an external drive with at least 5 tib of storage.
- He realized his mistake when he tried to store his massive dataset on a drive that was only 1 tib in size.
- After compressing the files, the total size of the folder was just under 3 tib.