gigabyte

     

A gigabyte (erived from the SI prefix giga-) is a unit of information or computer storage meaning either exactly 1 billion bytes (10003, or 109) or approximately 1.07 billion bytes (10243, or 230).

Trivia about gigabyte

  • Abbreviated G or GB in computerese, it's equal to 1,024 MB
  • 1,024 megabytes
  • In computers, it's a measure of storage capacity equal to 1 billion bytes
  • This unit equals about 1,000 megabytes, or about half a million pages of text