Understanding capacity indicators

The system uses base-2 (binary numeral) as capacity indicators for volumes, drives, and other system objects. The management GUI and the command-line interface (CLI) use different abbreviations to indicate capacity, but the value for these capacity indicators is the same.

The following table displays the differences in how capacity indicators are displayed in the management GUI and the CLI.
Table 1. Capacity indicators. This table displays the differences in how capacity indicators are displayed in the management GUI and the CLI.
Metric GUI Abbreviation CLI Abbreviation Value
kibibyte KiB KB 1024
mebibyte MiB MB 1,048,576
gibibyte GiB GB 1,073,741,824
tebibyte TiB TB 1,099,511,627,776
pebibyte PiB PB 1,125,899,906,842,624
exbibyte EiB EB 1,152,921,504,606,846,976
zebibyte ZiB ZB 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
yobibyte YiB YB 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176
Parent topic: Command-line interface