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Gigabyte

• Approximately one billion bytes. Often shortened to "gigs" or GB.^[1]

• One billion bytes. Also expressed as one thousand megabytes. In terms of image storage capacity, one gigabyte equals approximately 17,000 81/2" x 11" pages scanned at 300 dpi, stored as TIFF Group IV images.^[2]

• AThe equivalent of one billion (actually 1,073,741,824) bytes; or one million kilobytes, or one thousand megabytes.

• Equal to 1,000 megabytes (MB) or 1,073,741,824 bytes.

See also

• Bit
• Byte
• KB - kilobyte
• MB - megabyte
• GB - gigabyte
• TB - terabyte
• PB - petabyte
• EB - exabyte

Footnotes

1. ^  Vinson & Elkins LLP Practice Support, EDD Glossary.
2. ^  American Document Management, Glossary of Terms, http://www.amdoc.com/glossary.shtml.