How much space does a gigabyte takes up?

Answer 1

A gigabyte is a number - not an object. A gigabyte of Elephants would take up a lot of space. A gigabyte of hydrogen atoms takes up not much at all. A gigabyte is a BILLION bytes - or 1,000,000,000, in round numbers. Its actually a little higher if you use the base 2 (binary) counting system, which computers generally do.

Answer 2

It depends on the relative definition of "a lot." In comparison to most technology today, no, a gigabyte is not that much. It is just over 1000 megabytes, about 1024 I believe. That amount of space will hold different amounts of files, dependent on their types. Few WAVs and videos will fit because they take up a lot more space. It will hold around 250-300 MP3 songs. As for normal small files [ie text files, etc], it should hold a lot more. Pictures are in that middle ground between the text and mp3s.

Answer 3

Quick knowledge first: the PC works using 0 and 1 and it's called a bit (b). It grows untill 8 bit and changes to Byte (B) which is the equivalent to a meter in the SI (International System of Units). Most people use kilo, mega, giga and tera referring to Bytes and the use of Computers, as if they meant multiples of powers of 2, which is WRONG.
Wrong form:

• kilo- = 1 024
• mega- = 1 048 576
• giga- = 1 073 741 824
• tera- = 1 099 511 627 776

Correct form (decimal, used for hard drives, DVDs, network speeds, etc):

• kilo- = 1,000
• mega- = 1,000,000
• giga- = 1,000,000,000
• tera- = 1,000,000,000,000
  

Correct form (binary, used for RAM):

• kibi- = 1 024
• mebi- = 1 048 576
• gibi- = 1 073 741 824
• tebi- = 1 099 511 627 776

Why? Because power works on 0 or 1 as we said before, means 2 as base to decimal index (0, 10, 20, 30...) And not the SI we said before: 10 as base and index times 3 (0, 3, 6, 9...)

So meter is 1 then kilometer = 1 000 meters; making you sweat if you run it. May last 10 minutes on it.

A byte is 1 then gibibyte (GiB) = 1 073 741 824 Bytes and it can be copied in seconds, making the computer your slave "running" that much.

Imagine you could run that for under a tenth of a second... GHz or gigahertz work in the same way, as a PC's CPU. Means doing lots of tasks for in less than a second.

Answer 4

no.

1000 gb = 1 tb

1 tb > 1 gb