What's the difference between MB and GB when speaking about the specifications of a hard drive (or any other time, really)?
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To be exact: - One kilobyte, kB, of storage is 1024 bytes (not 1000). - One megabyte, MB, is 1024^2 or 1,048,576 bytes. - One gigabyte, GB, is 1024^3 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. - One terabyte, TB, is 1024^4 or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes.
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To clear up the obvious here. Both answers here are correct, depending on how your HD is set up [which manufacturer]. Western Digital considers a gigabyte to be 1000 megabytes. Windows uses the 1,024 preference. So in short, a gigabyte can be considered either 1,000 megabytes or 1,024 megabytes.
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1GB = 1,024 MB (1MB = 1,024 KB) 10GB = 10,240 MB (AND 10,240,000 KB)
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