Yib (Noun)
Meaning
A unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The massive data warehouse required an entire yib of storage to accommodate its vast archives of information.
- After months of downloading, the collector finally filled her yib-sized external hard drive with rare and obscure digital files.
- Data compression algorithms have made it possible to fit an entire yib of information on a single flash drive.
- Engineers calculated that the advanced telescope's imaging sensors would produce nearly a yib of raw data every minute.
- Physicists warned that their massive experiment would generate over a yib of raw data that would take months to process and analyze.