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| Topic | so the diff between gigabytes and gigabits is what? |
| captpackrat 06/04/19 10:26:59 AM #13: | If you think gigabytes/gigabits is confusing, wait until you learn about gibibytes (GiB). A gigabyte is 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes, while a gibibyte is 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes. Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, etc all all based on powers of 1000 (or 10^3) Kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes, tebibytes, pebibytes, etc are all based on powers of 1024 (or 2^10) The confusion between GB & GiB is why hard drives appear to never have the capacity stated on the box. Hard drive manufacturers list capacity in decimal gigabytes (128 GB is 128,000,000,000 bytes), while Windows erroneously uses the term gigabyte for binary gigabytes (gibibytes). 128,000,000,000 bytes is about 119 GiB. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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