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  • noun Plural form of gibibyte.

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Examples

  • 74 GB is approximately 69 GiB, where GB stands for decimal gigabytes and GiB for traditional binary gigabytes, nowadays also called "gibibytes".

    PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009

  • Of course, Linux distros are not alone in this - a computer system is a huge, complex collection of interacting software and hardware, even more so when the basic install includes several gibibytes of extra software over and above the OS.

    LXer Linux News 2009

  • Of course, Linux distros are not alone in this - a computer system is a huge, complex collection of interacting software and hardware, even more so when the basic install includes several gibibytes of extra software over and above the OS.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • In particular, I dreampt of visiting an old friend I've neglected to keep in touch with lately; and at her house she had a rather snazzy little mini-laptop, like an EeePC or something, which had an eSATA connector into which she plugged some humungous in terms of gibibytes; it was the size of a double CD case, physically external hard disk upon which she had a filesystem that seemed to work very much like Fossil/Venti, the original inspiration for my backup system - or perhaps like a giant personal Git repository.

    Snell-Pym » Backup system progress 2008

  • In particular, I dreampt of visiting an old friend I've neglected to keep in touch with lately; and at her house she had a rather snazzy little mini-laptop, like an EeePC or something, which had an eSATA connector into which she plugged some humungous in terms of gibibytes; it was the size of a double CD case, physically external hard disk upon which she had a filesystem that seemed to work very much like Fossil/Venti, the original inspiration for my backup system - or perhaps like a giant personal Git repository.

    Snell-Pym » 2008 » December 2008

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