How many bytes are one gigabyte?

in #dpoll5 years ago

How many bytes are one gigabyte?


Some hardware or software manufacturers or sellers are annoying me…

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  • 1000 x 1000 bytes

  • 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes

  • 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes

  • 1024 x 1024 bytes

  • 100 terabytes

  • various, or ambiguous

  • other (please comment)

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Voted for 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes.

Voted for 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes.

1000 is the international standardised amount. Labeled as a Gigabyte (GB)

1024 is the binary amount. Labeled as Gibibyte (GiB)

Voted for various, or ambiguous.

There are two types of measures, but hardware sellers are always using the more convenient (decimal) system. So the storage seems to be larger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
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Voted for other (please comment).

Yes.
:)
They are about to get you!
What does Wikipedia tell you?

Voted for 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes.

Seeing the thumbnail, I was like wtf! This is a question for Google but then yeah I love the way you presented the answers.

I’m not sure but I’m sure that it is a multiple of 1024, since 8 buts are in a byte, therefore it’s an exponential multiple of 8. (I think it’s 1024x1024x1024)

Voted for 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes.

Voted for 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes.

Voted for 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes.

Voted for 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes.

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