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How much does a gigabyte weigh?

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Computer storage does not have any mass.

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Where do you look on your computer to see how many mega bytes there are on the hard drive?

If you are using Windows, go to 'My Computer', right click your hard drive, click Properties and you will be shown the information for your hard drive (Note that this will tell you how much in gigabytes (gb). 1024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte).


How big is 256K?

256 MB = 1/4 of a GB. So there is a fourth of a gigabyte in 256 megabytes.


What is 100000000 bytes in GB?

It is either 0.1 GB, or 0.093 GB, depending on whom you ask. Storage devices are advertised as decimal (or "metric") gigabytes, which is 109 or 1,000,000,000 bytes. Microsoft Windows, and indeed most programs written by classic programmers, use binary gigabytes, which is 230 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. The latter definition gives a better view of how much storage is used, because storage devices store sections of 512 (29) bytes at once, not 500 bytes. This eases address computations, etc. as computers naturally use binary numbers. Manufacturers use decimal values so that neophyte computer users can understand exactly how much capacity they're buying.


How much more storage space do you get using 3 gigabytes at base 2 than with 3 gigabytes base 10?

Base 10: 3 Gigabytes (3 Gb) is 3,000,000,000 bytes.Base 2: 3 Giga-binary-bytes (3 Gib) is 3,221,225,472 bytes. The difference is therefore 221,225,472 bytes. Note that memory capacities are always specified precisely, in Gibs, whereas hard-disk drives are expressed approximately, in Gbs. Thus three 1 GiB memory chips will always equate to exactly 3,221,225,472 bytes while a 3 Gb hard drive is always *at least* 3,000,000,000 bytes. However, most operating systems report both memory and hard-drive capacities in Gibs rather than Gbs, but use the Gb acronym instead of the Gib acronym. Thus hard-drives always appear much smaller than they actually are. For instance, a 3 terabyte drive will be listed as a 2.7 Tb drive (rather than 2.7 Tib), but there's still at least 3 trillion bytes of capacity.


Your computer has 1.85 gigahertz and 512 of RAM how much memory do you have in gigabytes?

This means the processor runs at a frequency of 1.85 gigahertz. In other words (ie.) the processor's instruction counter increments 1.85 billion times per second. If we assume that this is measured in megabytes (ie. 512 MB of RAM) then the computer has 0.5 gigabytes of memory. The memory of a computer is the amount of RAM it has. Notice that the amount memory is normally a multiple of two. A gigabyte of RAM ( 1 GB ) amounts to 1024 megabytes (1024 MB) of memory.