Know that quantities of bytes can be described using binary prefixes representing powers of 2 or using decimal prefixes representing powers of 10, eg one kibibyte is written as 1KiB = 210B and one kilobyte is written as 1kB = 103B.
| Name | Symbol | Power |
|---|---|---|
| kibi | Ki | 210 |
| mebi | Mi | 220 |
| gibi | Gi | 230 |
| tebi | Ti | 240 |
| Name | Symbol | Power |
|---|---|---|
| kilo | k | 103 |
| mega | M | 106 |
| giga | G | 109 |
| tera | T | 1012 |
Additional Information
Historically the terms kilobyte, megabyte, etc have often been used when kibibyte, mebibyte, etc are meant.