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GB vs GiB

July 15, 2020

Interesting facts between GB and GiB.

  • GB uses base 1000. GiB uses base 1024.
  • 1GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes. 1GiB is 1,073,741,824 bytes.
  • A 1TB drive is 1,000 GB. Or 931 GiB.
  • A 1TiB drive is 1000 GiB. Or 1099 GB.
  • To convert GB to GiB, multiply by (1000 / 1024).
  • To convert GiB to GB, divide by (1000 / 1024).

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