What is a gigabyte?
A gigabyte is one billion bytes in decimal storage notation and is commonly used to describe device and file capacity.
1 GB = 1,000 MB = 1,000,000,000 bytes
Data unit
Gigabyte
GBA gigabyte is one billion bytes in decimal storage notation and is commonly used to describe device and file capacity.
History
The SI prefix giga became common in computing as storage capacity grew from megabytes to billions of bytes in consumer devices.
Common uses
- Phone storage
- Downloads
- Memory plans
- Cloud storage