Convert kilobytes to kibibytes
kibibytes = kilobytes × 0.976563
One kilobyte is 0.976563 kibibytes, so multiply by 0.976563 to convert. Going the other way, one kibibyte is 1.024 kilobytes. This is the conversion behind a drive that seems to lose space: manufacturers sell decimal units (1 TB = 10¹² bytes) while Windows displays binary ones (1 TiB = 2⁴⁰ bytes) under the label “TB”. Nothing is missing — the same bytes are being counted in a bigger unit.
Convert any value
- Bytes
- 1,000 B
- Bits
- 8,000 bit
- Kilobytes (KB, 10³)
- 1 KB
- Megabytes (MB, 10⁶)
- 0.001 MB
- Terabytes (TB, 10¹²)
- 0 TB
- Kibibytes (KiB, 2¹⁰)
- 0.976563 KiB
- Mebibytes (MiB, 2²⁰)
- 0.000954 MiB
- Gibibytes (GiB, 2³⁰)
- 0.000001 GiB
- Tebibytes (TiB, 2⁴⁰)
- 0 TiB
- Time to transfer at 100 Mbit/s
- 0 secondsBytes × 8 ÷ 100,000,000 — a typical home broadband speed.
Assumptions
- KB/MB/GB/TB are decimal (powers of 1,000); KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB are binary (powers of 1,024).
- A byte is 8 bits.
| Decimal | Bytes | Binary | Bytes | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 KB (kilobyte) | 1,000 | 1 KiB (kibibyte) | 1,024 | 2.4% |
| 1 MB (megabyte) | 1,000,000 | 1 MiB (mebibyte) | 1,048,576 | 4.9% |
| 1 GB (gigabyte) | 10⁹ | 1 GiB (gibibyte) | 1,073,741,824 | 7.4% |
| 1 TB (terabyte) | 10¹² | 1 TiB (tebibyte) | 1,099,511,627,776 | 10.0% |
| 1 PB (petabyte) | 10¹⁵ | 1 PiB (pebibyte) | 2⁵⁰ | 12.6% |
| Advertised | Bytes | Shown as |
|---|---|---|
| 128 GB | 128,000,000,000 | 119.2 GB |
| 256 GB | 256,000,000,000 | 238.4 GB |
| 512 GB | 512,000,000,000 | 476.8 GB |
| 1 TB | 1,000,000,000,000 | 931.3 GB |
| 2 TB | 2,000,000,000,000 | 1,862.6 GB |
| 4 TB | 4,000,000,000,000 | 3,725.3 GB |
| Approx. size | |
|---|---|
| Plain-text email | 5 KB |
| Smartphone photo (JPEG) | 3–5 MB |
| MP3 song (4 min, 256 kbps) | 8 MB |
| RAW photo | 25–50 MB |
| 1 hour of HD streaming video | 3 GB |
| 1 hour of 4K streaming video | 7 GB |
| Blu-ray movie | 25–50 GB |
| Modern AAA video game | 100–150 GB |
kilobytes to kibibytes table
| kilobytes | kibibytes |
|---|---|
| 1 kilobyte | 0.976563 kibibytes |
| 2 kilobytes | 1.9531 kibibytes |
| 3 kilobytes | 2.9297 kibibytes |
| 4 kilobytes | 3.9063 kibibytes |
| 5 kilobytes | 4.8828 kibibytes |
| 10 kilobytes | 9.7656 kibibytes |
| 15 kilobytes | 14.6484 kibibytes |
| 20 kilobytes | 19.5313 kibibytes |
| 25 kilobytes | 24.4141 kibibytes |
| 50 kilobytes | 48.8281 kibibytes |
| 75 kilobytes | 73.2422 kibibytes |
| 100 kilobytes | 97.6563 kibibytes |
| 500 kilobytes | 488.2813 kibibytes |
| 1,000 kilobytes | 976.5625 kibibytes |
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