Data Storage Converter

Converts both decimal units (1 GB = 1,000 MB) and binary units (1 GiB = 1,024 MiB).

1 GB = 1,000 MB

Decimal and binary units

Decimal (SI)BytesBinary (IEC)Bytes
1 kB1,0001 KiB1,024
1 MB1,000,0001 MiB1,048,576
1 GB10⁹1 GiB1,073,741,824
1 TB10¹²1 TiB1,099,511,627,776

The two systems differ by 2.4% at the kilo level but almost 10% at the tera level. Bits (b) are different again: network speeds in Mbps are megabits, and 8 bits make a byte.

Units in bytes

Data storage units expressed in bytes
UnitIn bytes
1 kilobyte (kB)1,000 B
1 megabyte (MB)1,000,000 B
1 gigabyte (GB)1,000,000,000 B
1 terabyte (TB)1,000,000,000,000 B
1 kibibyte (KiB)1,024 B
1 mebibyte (MiB)1,048,576 B
1 gibibyte (GiB)1,073,741,824 B
1 tebibyte (TiB)1,099,511,627,780 B

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