GB Full Form Name
Full Form of GB:
Gigabyte
GB Full Form is Gigabyte.
A multiple of the ‘byte’ unit used in the digital information is called the GB
or Gigabyte. In the SI system, the ‘Giga’ prefix means 109. Hence, 1 gigabyte
equals to 1000000000 bytes. The definition stated above is utilized in all
areas of business, engineering, and science. Numerous fields of computing like
speeds of transmitting data, solid state drive, hard drives and capacities of
tape also use this definition. There are certain areas of the information
technology and computer science that uses this term for denoting 1073741824, or
230 or 10243 bytes. This holds true especially in the case of RAM sizes.
For the RAM used in
semiconductors, 1 GB equals to 1073741 bytes. The number of bytes denoted by
one gigabyte in the case of the capacities of hard drives as marketed and
described by the manufacturers is 1000000000 bytes. The capacity of a five hundred
gigabyte drive, for instance, is described as four hundred and sixty-five
gigabytes. In this, one gigabyte denotes 1073741824 bytes.For removing this
confusion, the SI system has standardized the binary prefixes.
Hence, an integral power of 1024
is denoted by each binary prefix. In accordance with these prefixes, a module
of a memory of one-gigabyte size is denoted by one gibibyte or 1 GiB. Some of
the examples of storage of size 1 gigabyte are (1) A Blue-ray disc of one layer
is capable of holding around twenty-five gigabytes of data. (2) A DVD+R disc
having two layers can hold eight gigabytes of data. (3) A Blue-ray Disc of two
layers can hold fifty gigabytes of data. (4) A high definition television video
of 7 minutes holds one gigabyte of data.