gigabyte
noun
giga·byte
ˈji-gə-ˌbīt 
ˈgi-
ˈgi-
: 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes
also
: one billion bytes
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The second number to look out for is the capacity of the drive, in gigabytes.
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John Burek, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
The 13-inch Surface Laptop with the Snapdragon X Elite (with 16 gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabytes of storage) starts at $1,400.
—Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 2 July 2024
That process, Jurić explains, will be highly automated, given that the camera will be recording more than six million gigabytes of data per year.
—Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
By default, on a PC with 256GB of storage, Recall can store a couple dozen gigabytes of data across three months of PC usage, a huge amount of personal data.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
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John Burek, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
The 13-inch Surface Laptop with the Snapdragon X Elite (with 16 gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabytes of storage) starts at $1,400.
—Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 2 July 2024
That process, Jurić explains, will be highly automated, given that the camera will be recording more than six million gigabytes of data per year.
—Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
By default, on a PC with 256GB of storage, Recall can store a couple dozen gigabytes of data across three months of PC usage, a huge amount of personal data.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
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gigabyte
noun
giga·byte
-ˌbīt
: 1,073,741,824 bytes
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