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 Gigabyte Definition: A storage unit approximately one billion bytes or 10^9 bytes. More specifically a gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes or 2^30 bytes. Often abbreviated Gb, a Gig, or GiB. Also a hardware manufacturing company which makes different models of Motherboards and Graphics cards. Gigabyte also sells pre-built computers and laptops. Usage: I just download a Gigabyte size file in ten minutes. Posted by HybridSupernova on April 27, 2009 at 14:51:48 Pacific |
Gigabyte Definition: A storage unit approximately one billion bytes or 10^9 bytes. More specifically a gibibyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes or 2^30 bytes. Often abbreviated GB or GiB for gibibyte. Usage: The game is so big it takes up 5 gigabytes. Posted by Maban on April 27, 2009 at 14:26:57 Pacific |
Gigabyte Definition: 10^9 eight-bit bytes. This is not to be confused with Gibibytes which is 2^30 eight-bit bytes. Unfortunately the Hard Drive manufacturers corrupted the term and a new scientific word had to be created. Popular jargon has not caught up with the very significant difference between the two terms. Usage: A 64GB (gigbyte) hard drive has less space than a 64 GiB(gibibyte) hard drive. Posted by kingdurin on July 6, 2009 at 14:17:43 Pacific |
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