kibibyte (KiB)

Also written: KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, mebibyte, gibibyte, tebibyte

1,024 bytes; each next unit (MiB, GiB, TiB) is 1,024 times the one before. Operating systems often count this way, which is why a '1 TB' disk shows as 931 GiB.