what's 1GB equal to?

[Zee]

running a google search shows 1024 MB and 1000 MB. Which one is it?

1000MB

1024MB

 

[Lvis]

If you're buying a harddrive, it's 1000, as they measure it.

In reality, its 1024

 

[sash1]

In actuality its 1024Mb, but they really mean 1000Mb.

`K

 

[Kipper]

It adds up...my 200GB WD = 186 formatted.

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: Lvis
If you're buying a harddrive, it's 1000, as they measure it.

In reality, its 1024

This man speaks the truth.

 

[Zee]

so google is wrong?

 

[Corporate Thug]

1024

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: Lazee
so google is wrong?

Technically, yes, but since hard drive makers use 1000mb, and their email boxes are obviously stored on a hard drvive they could be considered correct

 

[Ionizer86]

Technically, a Gigibyte is 2^30 bytes and a Gigabyte is 10^3 bytes. But gigabyte has come to stand for 10^3, at least with Google and with the HDD makers, whereas Windows still reads a gig as 2^30 bytes.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
Technically, a Gigibyte is 2^30 bytes and a Gigabyte is 10^3 bytes. But gigabyte has come to stand for 10^3, at least with Google and with the HDD makers, whereas Windows still reads a gig as 2^30 bytes.

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
Technically, a Gigibyte is 2^30 bytes and a Gigabyte is 10^3 bytes. But gigabyte has come to stand for 10^3, at least with Google and with the HDD makers, whereas Windows still reads a gig as 2^30 bytes.

how nice. Perhaps we should have them change the definition of a foot to equal 10 inches... :disgust:

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
Technically, a Gigibyte is 2^30 bytes and a Gigabyte is 10^3 bytes. But gigabyte has come to stand for 10^3, at least with Google and with the HDD makers, whereas Windows still reads a gig as 2^30 bytes.

Gibibyte, not gigibyte

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Lazee

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
Technically, a Gigibyte is 2^30 bytes and a Gigabyte is 10^3 bytes. But gigabyte has come to stand for 10^3, at least with Google and with the HDD makers, whereas Windows still reads a gig as 2^30 bytes.

how nice. Perhaps we should have them change the definition of a foot to equal 10 inches... :disgust:

Don't blame Microsoft, almost ALL computer users consider a gigabyte to be 2^30, the ones that don't are just being pedantic. The gibi/mebi/kibi/etc prefixes were created by anal-retentive scientists who were pissed off that computer users were using the SI prefixes improperly. Gibi stands for giga-binary and so on and so forth.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
Technically, a Gigibyte is 2^30 bytes and a Gigabyte is 10^3 bytes. But gigabyte has come to stand for 10^3, at least with Google and with the HDD makers, whereas Windows still reads a gig as 2^30 bytes.

10^3 bytes = kilobyte

you mean 10^9 bytes.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

giga is the prefix for billion. so saying it's 1000 megabytes is right. However, in the computer world everything is done in powers of two so it's 2^30, which makes 1024 megabytes. This thread is the first I've heard of gibi.... and I'm a third year computer science major....

 

[edmundoab]

1024 MB

alot would round up to 1000MB for easier conversion and calculation

 

[Chaotic42]

1 gigabyte=1000000000 bytes

 

[oupei]

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=gigabyte&x=0&y=0

 

[n0cmonkey]

In base 2 it's 1024. Computers work on base 2. So in the computer world, a gigabyte is 1024. In base 10 it's 1000. Hard drive manufacturers use base 10 for some unknown reason (probably to inflate the sizes they report). The people that made up gibi are just trying to redefine math.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
In base 2 it's 1024. Computers work on base 2. So in the computer world, a gigabyte is 1024. In base 10 it's 1000. Hard drive manufacturers use base 10 for some unknown reason (probably to inflate the sizes they report). The people that made up gibi are just trying to redefine math.

I don't know.

One byte is 8 bits. Be it in base 2, 8, or 5000, a byte is 8 bits. One billion is the same quantity. One kilobyte is 1000 bytes or 8000 bits. If we're going to say that kilo- means one thousand, mega- one million, and giga- one billion, then 1 gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes in any number system.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
In base 2 it's 1024.

There is no 2 or 4 in base 2 only symbols available are 0 and 1

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
In base 2 it's 1024. Computers work on base 2. So in the computer world, a gigabyte is 1024. In base 10 it's 1000. Hard drive manufacturers use base 10 for some unknown reason (probably to inflate the sizes they report). The people that made up gibi are just trying to redefine math.

I don't know.

One byte is 8 bits. Be it in base 2, 8, or 5000, a byte is 8 bits. One billion is the same quantity. One kilobyte is 1000 bytes or 8000 bits. If we're going to say that kilo- means one thousand, mega- one million, and giga- one billion, then 1 gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes in any number system.

No. 1024 base 2 = 1000 base 10.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
In base 2 it's 1024.

There is no 2 or 4 in base 2 only symbols available are 0 and 1

Add binary.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

base two is binary. 1024 decimal/base 10 = 1000000000 binary/base 2. That's why computers work in powers of two they make nice numbers in binary.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
base two is binary. 1024 decimal/base 10 = 1000000000 binary/base 2. That's why computers work in powers of two they make nice numbers in binary.

1000 in binary/base 2 = 1111101000
If you add 1111101000 in binary correctly, it should come out to about 1023.