Gigabyte vs Megabit - What's the difference?
gigabyte | megabit |
(SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
* 1981 , IBM,
(computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.
(computing) 106 = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes)
* 1965 , IBM,
(computing) 220 = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit
As nouns the difference between gigabyte and megabit
is that gigabyte is 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB while megabit is 106 = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes.gigabyte
English
(wikipedia gigabyte)Noun
(en noun)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.
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megabit
English
(wikipedia megabit)Noun
(en noun)Field Engineering Theory of Operation 2311 Disk Storage Drive, page 3-27
- When reading clock pulses only, the signal frequency is 625 kHz. The bit rate, however, is twice the signal frequency, or 1.25 megabits /sec.