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Gibibyte

Definition: 2^30 eight-bit bytes. Replaces the misused Gigabyte, which indicates 1,000,000 eight-bit bytes. Common abbreviation is GiB.
Usage: A 64GB HD does not have 64GiB of storage.
Posted by kingdurin on July 6, 2009 at 14:14:24 Pacific

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