Gigabyte (GB)

The gigabyte is a unit of data, used for smartphone storage, RAM capacity, movie file sizes, and mobile data plans. Its symbol is GB.

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1 gigabyte equals

Megabytes	1,000 MB
Terabytes	0.001 TB

About the gigabyte

The gigabyte became a household term in the late 1990s as hard drives reached GB capacity. The first 1 GB hard drive was released by IBM in 1980 and weighed 250 kg.

In everyday use the gigabyte appears in smartphone storage, RAM capacity, movie file sizes, and mobile data plans. As a point of reference: a standard HD movie file is about 4 to 5 gigabytes.

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