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Gigabyte vs Gigs - What's the difference?

gigabyte | gigs |

As nouns the difference between gigabyte and gigs

is that gigabyte is 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB while gigs is plural of gig.

As a verb gigs is

third-person singular of gig.

gigabyte

English

(wikipedia gigabyte)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
  • * 1981 , IBM, IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide , page 1
    • The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage.
  • (computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.

    • Coordinate terms

    * Previous: megabyte * Next: terabyte

    Related terms

    * gibibyte * gigabit

    Synonyms

    * gig

    References

    * The IEC explanation of its definitions ----

    gigs

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (gig)