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114 minutes of uncompressed CD-quality audio at 1.4 Mbit/s is approximately 1 GB. A single-layer DVD+R disc can hold about 4.7 GB. A dual-layered DVD+R disc can hold about 8.5 GB. A single-layer Blu-ray can hold about 25 GB. The largest Nintendo Switch cartridge available on the market holds about 32 GB. A dual-layered Blu-ray can hold about 50 GB.
Due to typical file system design, the amount of space allocated for a file is usually larger than the size of the file's data – resulting in a relatively small amount of storage space for each file, called slack space or internal fragmentation, that is not available for other files but is not used for data in the file to which it belongs. [2]
In this convention, one thousand and twenty-four megabytes (1024 MB) is equal to one gigabyte (1 GB), where 1 GB is 1024 3 bytes (i.e., 1 GiB). Mixed 1 MB = 1 024 000 bytes (= 1000×1024 B) is the definition used to describe the formatted capacity of the 1.44 MB 3.5-inch HD floppy disk , which actually has a capacity of 1 474 560 bytes .
In 2005 a 200 GB harddisk cost US$100, [5] equivalent to $156 in 2023. As of April 2015, this is the maximum capacity of a fingernail-sized microSD card. 2 41: 2,199,023,255,552 bits (256 gibibytes) – As of 2017, this is the maximum capacity of a fingernail-sized microSD card 2 42: 4,398,046,511,104 bits (512 gibibytes) terabyte
3 MB: A three-minute song (133 kbit/s) 650–900 MB – a CD-ROM; 1 GB: 114 minutes of uncompressed CD-quality audio at 1.4 Mbit/s; 16 GB: DDR5 DRAM laptop memory under $40 (as of early 2024) 32/64/128 GB: Three common sizes of USB flash drives; 1 TB: The size of a $30 hard disk (as of early 2024)
The ISQ symbols for the bit and byte are bit and B, respectively.In the context of data-rate units, one byte consists of 8 bits, and is synonymous with the unit octet.The abbreviation bps is often used to mean bit/s, so that when a 1 Mbps connection is advertised, it usually means that the maximum achievable bandwidth is 1 Mbit/s (one million bits per second), which is 0.125 MB/s (megabyte per ...
Same build as SD but greater capacity and transfer speed, 4 GB to 32 GB (not compatible with older host devices). miniSDHC: 2008 32 GB [4] Same build as miniSD but greater capacity and transfer speed, 4 GB to 32 GB. 8 GB is largest in early-2011 (not compatible with older host devices). microSDHC: 2007 32 GB [4]
An alternative system of nomenclature for the same units (referred to here as the customary convention), in which 1 kilobyte (KB) is equal to 1,024 bytes, [38] [39] [40] 1 megabyte (MB) is equal to 1024 2 bytes and 1 gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1024 3 bytes is mentioned by a 1990s JEDEC standard. Only the first three multiples (up to GB) are ...