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Digital Storage Conversion Table
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About Digital Storage Conversions
Storage units confuse people because decimal (SI) and binary (IEC) prefixes have overlapped for decades. Manufacturers sell in decimal: 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Operating systems long counted in binary: 1 GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes. That 7.4% gap widens with every step up, which is why a '1 TB' drive reads as roughly 931 GiB in your file manager. The IEC defined unambiguous binary prefixes (kibi-, mebi-, gibi-) in 1999, but they never fully caught on. Decimal and binary stay apart below, so a spec sheet and a file manager finally agree.
| Unit Name | Symbol | Value | Formula |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bit | b | 8 | divide by 8 |
| Byte | B | 1 | base unit |
| Gibibyte | GiB | 9.31323 × 10⁻¹⁰ | multiply by 1,073,741,824 (1024³) |
| Gigabyte | GB | 1 × 10⁻⁹ | multiply by 1,000,000,000 |
| Kibibyte | KiB | 0.000976563 | multiply by 1024 |
| Kilobyte | KB | 0.001 | multiply by 1000 |
| Mebibyte | MiB | 9.53674 × 10⁻⁷ | multiply by 1,048,576 (1024²) |
| Megabyte | MB | 0.000001 | multiply by 1,000,000 |
| Petabyte | PB | 1 × 10⁻¹⁵ | multiply by 1,000,000,000,000,000 |
| Tebibyte | TiB | 9.09495 × 10⁻¹³ | multiply by 1,099,511,627,776 (1024⁴) |
| Terabyte | TB | 1 × 10⁻¹² | multiply by 1,000,000,000,000 |