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A glossary of storage networking, data, and information management terminology. To learn more about the SNIA Dictionary click here.

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Gigabyte (GB)

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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