TiB

Units & Measurements abbreviation · Data Unit

TiB
Stands forTebibyte
CategoriesUnits & Measurements

TiB stands for Tebibyte, a data unit abbreviation.

Exactly 2^40 bytes, 1,099,511,627,776, about 10 percent more than a decimal terabyte. Storage arrays, cloud volume limits and file-system maximums are often specified in TiB.

Example: The storage array provides 500 TiB of usable capacity after RAID overhead.

Usage notes

The gap between decimal and binary units grows with size: about 2.4 percent at kilo, 4.9 percent at mega, 7.4 percent at giga and 10 percent at tera. That is why a "4 TB" drive appears as about 3.64 TiB, which Windows labels 3.63 TB.

More data unit abbreviations

  • b – Bit
  • bps – Bits per second
  • dpi – Dots per inch
  • DWPD – Drive writes per day
  • EB – Exabyte
  • EiB – Exbibyte
  • FLOPS – Floating-point operations per second
  • FPS – Frames per second
  • GB – Gigabyte
  • Gbps – Gigabits per second
  • GiB – Gibibyte
  • GT/s – Gigatransfers per second

See all 36 data unit abbreviations →

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