A unit of measurement is called a gigabyte.
Gigabyte is a unit of measurement that is symbolized as GB and that can have different equivalences according to its use. The term is not part of the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) but it is very common in computing .
Specifically, we can establish that the gigabyte is equivalent to 10 to the power of 9 bytes . In addition, it is interesting to make clear that it is a term that has its etymological origin in Greek. And the first word that gives it shape comes from the Greek word guigas , which can be translated as “giant.”
The gigabyte, unit of measurement of information
Reality shows that binary use differs from decimal use. The binary base is more common in the application of the concept to software and hardware design. Gigabyte is also used to measure the storage and transmission capacity of a computer system. The capacity of hard drives (or hard drives), for example, is measured in gigabytes (which, in colloquial language, is abbreviated as giga ).
For example: “I need a hard drive larger than 40 gigabytes for my computer,” “The 54 gigabyte hard drive I had on my office computer broke: I need a specialist to recover the data.”
Gigabyte Technology is the name of a Taiwanese company that manufactures hardware.
Other units
However, it must be made clear that it is not the only measure of information units that exists and that is used to move and work in what would be the technological and specifically computer environment. Thus, in addition to the gigabyte, there are also measurements such as the kilobyte , the megabyte , the terabyte or the petabyte , among many others.
It is important to distinguish between gigabyte and gigabit . A gigabit is 1/8 of a gigabyte, since it refers to bits and not bytes . The symbol for gigabit is Gb or Gbit . Typically, gigabit is used to name the transmission rate of a data stream or to describe bandwidth.
We cannot also ignore the fact that the term gigabyte has been used as such for a long time. However, it would not be until 1996 when different storage devices, such as hard drives or SSD cards ( Solid- State Drive), began to measure their capacity in said unit. of information.
Gigabyte as name
Gigabyte Technology , on the other hand, is a Taiwanese company that is involved in hardware manufacturing. The company, founded in 1986 , is famous for its motherboards . It is also dedicated to the production of monitors, power supplies and video cards , among other components.
It should also be noted that, in the same way, there is a company called Gigabyte Sistemas that is dedicated to the sale of a wide variety of technological products such as consoles, tablets, desktop computers or printers, among many other products.