Definition: Gigabyte is a unit of digital information storage equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes (decimal) or 1,073,741,824 bytes (binary).
History/origin: Larger unit than MB, used for bigger storage devices and file sizes.
Current use: Standard unit for measuring larger storage sizes such as hard drives, RAM, and data plans.
Definition: Megabyte is a unit of digital information storage equal to 1,000,000 bytes (decimal system) or 1,048,576 bytes (binary system, i.e., 1024²).
History/origin: Used as a standard measure for data storage and file sizes.
Current use: Commonly used to describe sizes of files, storage capacity, and memory.
| Gigabytes (GB) | Megabytes (MB) |
|---|---|
| 0.500 | 512.000 |
| 1.000 | 1024.000 |
| 2.000 | 2048.000 |
| 5.000 | 5120.000 |
| 10.000 | 10240.000 |
| 15.500 | 15872.000 |
| 20.000 | 20480.000 |
| 50.000 | 51200.000 |
| 100.000 | 102400.000 |
| 256.000 | 262144.000 |
1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes
Example: convert 2 GB to MB:
2 × 1024 = 2048 MB