Measuring large data sets

I was always confusing those. Trying to remember them now.

1TiB is Tebibyte = 240 bytes ~= 1,099,511,627,776 bytes (more then 1 trillion)

1TB is Terabyte = 1012 bytes == exactly 1 trillion bytes (1,000,000,000,000 = 4 groups of zeroes)

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