different between gigabyte vs petabyte

English

Etymology

giga- +? byte

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????ba?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?????ba?t/, /?d????ba?t/

Noun

gigabyte (plural gigabytes)

1. (SI) 10⁹, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
   • 1981, IBM, IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide, page 1

     The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage.

2. (computing) a gibibyte or 1024³ (1,073,741,824) bytes.

Synonyms

• GB, ?
• gig

Coordinate terms

• Previous: megabyte
• Next: terabyte

Related terms

• gibibyte
• gigabit

Translations

References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

Czech

Alternative forms

• gigabajt

Etymology

giga- +? byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????abajt]

Noun

gigabyte m

1. gigabyte

Further reading

• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Italian

Etymology

giga- +? byte

Noun

gigabyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) gigabyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English gigabyte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?a?bajt(?)(i)/

Noun

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. (computing) gigabyte (one billion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: GB, giga

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• gigabit
• gibibyte

Spanish

Noun

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. gigabyte

English

Etymology

From peta- +? byte.

Noun

petabyte (plural petabytes)

1. (SI) One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB.
2. (computing) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 1024⁵, or 2⁵⁰. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a pebibyte. SI symbol: PiB, computing symbol: PB.

Coordinate terms

• Previous: terabyte
• Next: exabyte

Translations

Czech

Alternative forms

• petabajt

Etymology

peta- +? byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?tabajt]

Noun

petabyte m

1. petabyte

Further reading

• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English petabyte.

Noun

petabyte m (plural petabytes)

1. (computing) petabyte (one quadrillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: PB, peta

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• petabit
• pebibyte