Shorthand for 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1024) bytes.
The SNIA uses the base 10 convention commonly found in I/O-related and scientific literature rather than the base 2 convention (1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176, i.e., 280) common in computer system and software literature.
See also Yobibyte.
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