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Gigabyte

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-000478

A unit of digital information storage equal to one billion (10^9) bytes. The gigabyte (GB) is a standard measure for the capacity of data storage devices like hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and USB flash drives, as well as for computer memory (RAM). In the context of storage media, a gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes, whereas in some operating system contexts it has represented 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes, a value now formally defined as a gibibyte (GiB).

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-000478
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectBits and Bytes
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-CMP-000478",
  "term": "Gigabyte",
  "field": "Computing and IT",
  "definition": "A unit of digital information storage equal to one billion (10^9) bytes. The gigabyte (GB) is a standard measure for the capacity of data storage devices like hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and USB flash drives, as well as for computer memory (RAM). In the context of storage media, a gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes, whereas in some operating system contexts it has represented 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes, a value now formally defined as a gibibyte (GiB).",
  "subject": "Bits and Bytes",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/gigabyte/"
}

Record 525 of 1,553 in Computing and IT terminology (MLC-0101). Request the full dataset.