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1,073,741,824 bytes. One gigabyte is equal to 1,024 megabytes.

A 'flash drive', aka 'thumb drive', 'USB drive', 'pen drive', 'stick drive', and other names, is really nothing more than a stick of DRAM with a controller chip and a tiny battery wrapped in a portable case. Because it is RAM-based, storage is measured in binary units (kibibytes) instead of the standard metric (kilobytes) units that hard drives use.

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