different between yottabyte vs gigabyte

English

Etymology

yotta- +? byte

Noun

yottabyte (plural yottabytes)

1. (computing) One septillion (10²⁴) bytes. SI symbol: YB.
   • 2012, James Bamford, Wired: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

     [...] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10²⁴ bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

Translations

See also

• yobibyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English yottabyte.

Noun

yottabyte m (plural yottabytes)

1. (computing) yottabyte (one septillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: YB

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• yottabit
• yobibyte

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