Tebibytes to Bits (TiB to bit)
1 tebibyte equals 8,796,093,022,208 bits exactly.
How to convert tebibytes to bits
To convert tebibytes to bits, multiply the number of tebibytes by 8,796,093,022,208. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply bits by 1.136868377×10⁻¹³ (rounded).
bits = tebibytes × 8,796,093,022,208
Example: 10 tebibytes = 87,960,930,222,080 bits.
Decimal prefixes (kB, MB, GB) are powers of 1,000; binary prefixes (KiB, MiB, GiB) are powers of 1,024. Storage makers use decimal; Windows reports binary but labels it GB.
About these units
Tebibyte (TiB)
Exactly 2⁴⁰ bytes, about 9.9% larger than a terabyte.
At tera scale the two systems drift furthest apart among the common units. The tebibyte equals 2 to the fortieth bytes, or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, and the IEC created the bi prefixes in 1998 to separate powers of 1,024 from SI powers of 1,000. A power-of-10 terabyte is about 9 percent smaller than a tebibyte, so the gap has more than tripled since the kibibyte, which is only about 2.4 percent larger than a kilobyte.
Practical consequences are visible on any new drive. A 1 TB drive may be reported as about 931 GB by an operating system that counts in binary but labels it GB. Some systems use TB for 1,024 to the fourth bytes, but the JEDEC standard does not mention TB or larger units. The unit is defined in IEC 80000-13, and its TiB symbol is rarely used outside tools such as KDE and Qt-based applications.
1 tebibyte = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Tebibyte; Wikipedia: Terabyte; NIST: Prefixes for binary multiples
Bit (bit)
The smallest unit of digital information: a single 0 or 1. Eight bits make a byte.
Bit is short for binary digit, and the word was coined by John W. Tukey. He shortened the phrase in a Bell Labs memo dated 9 January 1947. Claude Shannon first used it in print in his 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication and credited Tukey with the word. The idea predates the name: Ralph Hartley proposed a logarithmic measure of information in 1928, and punched cards, invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon in 1732 and developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1804, already stored one bit per hole position.
A bit holds one of two values, written 0 or 1, and everything digital is built from them. Eight bits make a byte, so a bit is one eighth of a byte. Symbols for the unit are not settled: the IEC standard uses bit, while IEEE 1541-2002 recommends a lowercase b, with uppercase B reserved for the byte. The difference matters because internet speeds and file sizes are quoted in different units.
1 bit = 0.125 bytes (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Bit; NIST: Prefixes for binary multiples
Related conversions
- Bits to tebibytes (reverse)
- Tebibytes to bytes
- Tebibytes to kilobytes
- Tebibytes to megabytes
- Tebibytes to gigabytes
- Tebibytes to terabytes
- Tebibytes to petabytes
- Tebibytes to kibibytes
- Tebibytes to mebibytes
- Tebibytes to gibibytes
- Tebibytes to kilobits
- Tebibytes to megabits
- Tebibytes to gigabits
- Bytes to bits
- Kilobytes to bits
- Megabytes to bits
- Gigabytes to bits
- Terabytes to bits
- Petabytes to bits
- Kibibytes to bits
- Mebibytes to bits
- Gibibytes to bits
- Kilobits to bits
- Megabits to bits
- Gigabits to bits
See all digital storage units.