This article is about a multiple of bytes. For the binary unit of measurement, see gibibyte. For the company, see Gigabyte Technology. For other uses, see Gigabyte (disambiguation).
This 2.5 inch hard drive has a capacity of 500 gigabytes (GB) of data (i.e., 500 billion bytes).
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Multiple-byte units
Decimal
Value
Metric
1000
103
kB
kilobyte
10002
106
MB
megabyte
10003
109
GB
gigabyte
10004
1012
TB
terabyte
10005
1015
PB
petabyte
10006
1018
EB
exabyte
10007
1021
ZB
zettabyte
10008
1024
YB
yottabyte
10009
1027
RB
ronnabyte
100010
1030
QB
quettabyte
Binary
Value
IEC
Memory
1024
210
KiB
kibibyte
KB
kilobyte
10242
220
MiB
mebibyte
MB
megabyte
10243
230
GiB
gibibyte
GB
gigabyte
10244
240
TiB
tebibyte
TB
terabyte
10245
250
PiB
pebibyte
–
10246
260
EiB
exbibyte
–
10247
270
ZiB
zebibyte
–
10248
280
YiB
yobibyte
–
10249
290
–
–
102410
2100
–
–
Orders of magnitude of data
The gigabyte (/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt,ˈdʒɪɡəbaɪt/)[1] is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB.
This definition is used in all contexts of science (especially data science), engineering, business, and many areas of computing, including storage capacities of hard drives, solid state drives, and tapes, as well as data transmission speeds. The term is also used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote 1073741824 (10243 or 230) bytes, however, particularly for sizes of RAM. Thus, some usage of gigabyte has been ambiguous. To resolve this difficulty, IEC 80000-13 clarifies that a gigabyte (GB) is 109 bytes and specifies the term gibibyte (GiB) to denote 230 bytes. These differences are still readily seen, for example, when a 400 GB drive's capacity is displayed by Microsoft Windows as 372 GB instead of 372 GiB. Analogously, a memory module that is labeled as having the size "1GB" has one gibibyte (1GiB) of storage capacity.
In response to litigation over whether the makers of electronic storage devices must conform to Microsoft Windows' use of a binary definition of "GB" instead of the metric/decimal definition, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California rejected that argument, ruling that "the U.S. Congress has deemed the decimal definition of gigabyte to be the 'preferred' one for the purposes of 'U.S. trade and commerce.'"[2][3]
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