A gigabyte is a unit of information storage capacity equal to one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. It is commonly used to measure the size of computer files and the amount of data that can be stored on various types of media.
One gigabyte is also equal to 1024 megabytes (MB), which means that there are 1024 MB in 1 GB. This number comes from the fact that there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte (KB), and 1024 KB in a MB. So when you multiply 1024 by itself three times, you get 1,073,741,824—which is close enough to one billion for most purposes.
The term “gigabyte” was first coined by Byte Magazine in their September 1974 issue in an article called “Gigabits per Second: A New Unit Definition” written by Drs. Peter Moller and Alan Kotok.
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