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गिगाबाइट
Also known as Gbyte, GB
The gigabyte () is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB.
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A gigabyte (GB) is a unit of digital storage or data equal to one billion bytes, with the prefix "giga" meaning one billion in the standard measurement system. This unit matters because it's commonly used to describe the size of files, storage capacity, and data transfer, making it easy to talk about large amounts of digital information in everyday terms.
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Key facts
- Unit.name
- gigabyte
- Unit.image
- Laptop-hard-drive-exposed.jpg
- Unit.caption
- This 2.5-inch hard drive has a capacity of 500 gigabytes (GB) of data (i.e., 500 billion bytes).
- Unit.standard
- Unit derived from bit
- Unit.quantity
- Digital information, data size
- Unit.symbol
- GB
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- conversion to standard unit
- 1000000
- unit symbol
- GB
- Commons category
- Gigabyte