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Canada
April 6, 2010 2:06pm CST
Which is bigger MB or GB? I alwatys thought that a megabite was bigger than a gegabite because it's mega. But what deos gega mean? My comouter is starting to make me think that a GB is bigger than a MB. Can anyone offer some insight into this?
5 responses
@___SKY___ (541)
• Hong Kong
7 Apr 10
Hi! For your References, bits,bytes,Kilobytes,Megabytes,Gigabytes,Terabytes. Kilo=Thousand, Mega=Million, Giga=Billion, Tera=Trillion. Hope you now all about it.
• Singapore
7 Apr 10
Giga is more larger then Mega, Giga is like the meaning of humongous (i think) as mega is like large in size. Now you even got Tetrabytes more bigger then Giga.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 Apr 10
A gigabyte is the larger of the two and is 1024 megabytes (based on 2 to the power of 10), although hard disk manufacturers tend to count it as 1000 megabytes instead. The titles start at a byte, which is a very small unit, and work the way up to kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and then terabyte which is currently used for extremely large units. As time passes and both programs and hard drives become bigger the next unit will be petabyte, although at present the term petabyte has little use. I cannot remember what would come after petabyte, but we are certain to exceed that in due course. I can remember programs being in kilobytes and hard drives being measured in megabytes, whereas today they would be of no value at all.
• China
7 Apr 10
Usually 1 GB=1024 MB but 1000 MB for HDD manufacturer.
@anjyell (127)
• India
6 Apr 10
first of all GB stands for Gigabyte not Gegabyte.Its roughly a billion bytes.The prefix giga comes from a Greek word meaning 'Giant'.Its is bigger than MB