In response to litigation over whether the makers of electronic storage devices must conform to Microsoft Windows' use of a binary definition of "GB" instead of the metric/decimal definition, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California rejected that argument, ruling that "the U.S. Analogously, a memory module that is labeled as having the size " 1 GB" has one gibibyte ( 1 GiB) of storage capacity.
#GB TO BYTE WINDOWS#
These differences are still readily seen for example, when a 400 GB drive's capacity is displayed by Microsoft Windows as 372 GB instead of 372 GiB. To resolve this difficulty, IEC 80000-13 clarifies that a gigabyte (GB) is 10 9 bytes and specifies the term gibibyte (GiB) to denote 2 30 bytes. Thus, prior to 1998, some usage of gigabyte has been ambiguous. However, the term is also used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote 1 073 741 824 (1024 3 or 2 30) bytes, particularly for sizes of RAM. This definition is used in all contexts of science (especially data science), engineering, business, and many areas of computing, including storage capacities of hard drives, solid state drives, and tapes, as well as data transmission speeds. Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The prefix giga means 10 9 in the International System of Units (SI). The gigabyte ( / ˈ ɡ ɪ ɡ ə b aɪ t, ˈ dʒ ɪ ɡ ə b aɪ t/) is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
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