SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Gigabyte
Shorthand for 1,000,000,000 (109) bytes.
The SNIA uses the base 10 convention commonly found in I/O-related and scientific literature rather than the base 2 convention (1,073,741,824, i.e., 230) common in computer system and software literature.
See also gibibyte.
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