tebibyte

/ˈtebibaɪt/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈtebibaɪt/ (ame, ipa)

tebibyte — noun

  • tebibytesingular
  • tebibytesplural

1. a standard measurement for how much digital information a computer can store or

1.名詞C2
釋義

a standard measurement for how much digital information a computer can store or process; one tebibyte equals two to the power of forty bytes — the same as 1,024 gibibytes, or around 1.1 trillion bytes

例句

The new server has four tebibytes of storage space for user files.

collocation: [number] + tebibytes + of + storage/data/memory

A video collection of one tebibyte can hold about two hundred hours of film.

concrete comparison: one tebibyte ≈ 200 hours of video

同義詞
  • TiB

    the standard abbreviation; more common in technical writing than the full word

用法筆記

Abbreviation: TiB. Unlike a terabyte (which is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes), a tebibyte always refers to 2^40 bytes. The term was created by the IEC in 1998 to end confusion between binary and decimal meanings of 'terabyte.'

常見錯誤

❌My hard drive is 2 tebibytes, which is 2 trillion bytes.
✅My hard drive is 2 tebibytes, which is about 2.2 trillion bytes.
💡A tebibyte is 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes, not 10^12 bytes.
❌A tebibyte is the same as a terabyte.
✅A tebibyte is slightly larger than a terabyte
💡about 10% bigger.' — Tebibyte uses binary measurement (1024 based) while terabyte uses decimal (1000 based).