Which is bigger, Zebibyte(ZiB) or Zettabit(Zbit)?

A Zettabit (Zb or Zbit) is a decimal unit of measurement for digital information transfer rate. It is equal to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one sextillion) bits. It is used to measure the speed of extremely high-speed data transfer over communication networks, such as high-speed internet backbones and advanced computer networks. The zettabit is part of the International System of Units (SI) and the prefix zetta indicates multiplication by the seventh power of 1000.

Where as a Zebibyte (ZiB) is a binary unit of digital information that is equal to 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes (or 9,444,732,965,739,290,427,392 bits) and is defined by the International Electro technical Commission(IEC). The prefix 'zebi' is derived from the binary number system and it is used to distinguish it from the decimal-based 'zettabyte' (ZB). It is widely used in the field of computing as it more accurately represents the storage size of high end servers and data storage arrays.

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