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Terabyte vs Gigabyte - What's the difference?

terabyte | gigabyte |

Gigabyte is a coordinate term of terabyte.



In computing colloquial terms the difference between terabyte and gigabyte

is that terabyte is imprecisely, a tebibyte or 10244 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes. SI symbol: TiB, computing symbol: TB while gigabyte is imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.

As nouns the difference between terabyte and gigabyte

is that terabyte is one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: TB while gigabyte is 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB.

terabyte

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One trillion (1,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: TB.
  • (computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a tebibyte or 10244 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes. SI symbol: TiB, computing symbol: TB.

    • See also

    * Previous: gigabyte * next: petabyte

    References

    * The IEC explanation of its definitions ----

    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 ----