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Pebibyte facts for kids

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A pebibyte (pronounced "PEH-bee-bite" and often shortened to PiB) is a super big unit used to measure computer memory or data. Think of it like a giant storage box for digital information!

One pebibyte is equal to 250 bytes. That's a massive number: 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes! To make it easier to understand, it's also 1,024 tebibytes.

It's important not to confuse a pebibyte with a petabyte. While they sound similar, a petabyte is based on powers of 10 (1015 bytes), and a pebibyte is based on powers of 2 (binary). Computers use binary, so pebibytes are often used for very precise measurements of computer storage.

Just like 1,024 bytes make a kilobyte, and 1,024 kilobytes make a megabyte, 1,024 pebibytes make an exbibyte.

Understanding Data Sizes

To help you imagine how much data these units hold, here are some examples:

Unit What it's like
bit A single "on" (1) or "off" (0) switch in a computer.
byte Enough space for one letter, like 'A' or 'b'.
kilobyte The text of a short story or a small picture.
megabyte A full song or a few chapters of a book.
gigabyte About half an hour of video or a whole movie.
terabyte Enough space for hundreds of movies or thousands of photos.
petabyte Imagine 2,000 years of music in MP3 format!
exabyte All the internet traffic in the world for a whole month, back in 2004.
zettabyte All the internet traffic in the world for a whole year, as of 2016!

See also

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