{"id":4357,"date":"2012-05-15T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/tebibyte\/"},"modified":"2013-04-26T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T08:19:11","slug":"tebibyte","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/5256\/tebibyte-tib","title":{"rendered":"Tebibyte"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_tebibyte_mean\">What Does Tebibyte Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A tebibyte (TiB) is a unit of digital information storage used to denote the size of data. It is equivalent to 240, or 1,099,511,627,776, bytes and 1,024 gibibytes.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_tebibyte\">Techopedia Explains Tebibyte<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Tebibyte is related to a terabyte, which is equal to 1012, or 1,000,000,000,000, bytes. It comes before pebibyte and after gibibyte. 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