GB TO BYTE SOFTWARE

GB TO BYTE SOFTWARE

Since computer memory comes in base two rather than 10, a large portion of the software and computer industry use binary estimates of the SI-prefixed quantities, while producers of computer storage devices prefer the SI values. In many computer architectures it is a unit of memory addressing, consisting of 8 bits. Most users prefer to convert units using the most common definition, so this site uses the non-SI form.Ī byte is the basic unit of measurement of information storage in computer science. This means that a 500 GB hard disk drive would appear as '465 GB'. The difference between units based on SI and binary prefixes increases exponentially - in other words, an SI kilobyte is nearly 98% as much as a kibibyte, but a megabyte is under 96% as much as a mebibyte, and a gigabyte is just over 93% as much as a gibibyte. Since 1999, the IEC recommends that this unit should instead be called a 'gibibyte' (abbreviated GiB). Microsoft uses this definition to display hard drive sizes, as do most other operating systems and programs by default.

This is the definition commonly used for computer memory and file sizes.

You can do the reverse unit conversion fromīyte to gigabyte, or enter any two units below: Enter two units to convert From:Ī gigabyte is a unit of information or computer storage meaning approximately 1.07 billion bytes.

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