What is one billion bytes called?

Answer 1

1,000 bytes, strictly doesn't have a name. A kilobyte is 1,024 bytes.

However, hard drive manufactures round this down to 1,000 bytes, so you can argue that 1,000 bytes is called a kilobyte.

Hard Drives that are advertised as 1TB drives often only have 1,000GB, not the 1,024GB they should have by definition... Always read the label!

Answer 2

The term is a terabyte.

1000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte and 1000 gigabytes = 1 terabyte

The prefix for the number 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion, short scale) is tera- (1000 gigabytes).

Answer 3

Commonly, this is referred to as one gigabyte. However, one gigabyte is technically equivalent to 2 to the 30th power (2^30): 1,073,741,824 bytes.

The scale starts as one kilobyte is 1024 bytes, one megabyte (1024 kilobytes) is 1,048,576 bytes, and one gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes (1024 megabytes or 1,048,576 kilobytes).

More recently, there has been a movement by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to try to equate the traditional scale with powers of ten so that a kilobyte is 1000 bytes, a megabyte is 1 million bytes, and a gigabyte is 1 billion bytes and the traditional measures are referred to as kibibytes, mebibytes, and gibibytes. However, I know of very few professionals who have given into such silliness. The stated reason for trying to do this is that certain folks felt that it was a "misuse" of the commonly-used "metric prefixes" to have them used for powers of two rather than powers of ten. It has also been said that there has been "consumer confusion" about the meaning of the terms in regard to how much data storage capacity is being discussed when comparing sizes of hard drives, RAM modules, etc. The professionals in the industry have commonly referred to kilobytes as 1000 bytes, for example, as approximations while they knew full well that it was actually 1,024 bytes. They did this as a matter of shorthand since it made any math faster and gave a margin of error (such as determining how much data would fit onto a floppy disk back in the early days of computing).

So, your question can be considered to have two answers: either an approximation of 1 gigabyte as used in the computer industry for well over 30 years or as the base-10 definition of a gigabyte as supposedly set up by the IEC in 1998 (though I never heard reference to this nonsense until the past few years nor has anyone of my fellow professionals with whom I have spoken about this).

I hope this helps. If you have any other questions, feel free to drop me a line.

Answer 4

1,000,000,000 bytes is called 1 Gigabyte.

Answer 5

KILO BYTE DUH