Gigabyte (Gig or GB)

Gigabyte (Gig or GB)

Gigabyte also known as GB is a unit of measurement that is used to calculate the amount of storage you have on devices such as flash drives, computers and phones. It’s usually sufficient to think of a gigabyte as approximately one billion bytes or 1000 megabytes.

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