What units are used as a measurement of HDD capacity.
2006-12-03 09:55:12 · 5 answers · asked by jaisil007 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
GB stands for GigaByte. This is a billion bytes of information.
Consider this comparison. A 80 minute CD holds about 700MB (or .7GB) of music data in the CD format. A DVD movie holds about 4.3GB of data in DVD movie format.
Generally, Windows 95/98/ME drives were limited to about 32GB. The initial Windows 2000 was limited to about 132GB, but a patch from the Microsoft website fixes that. Really huge hard drives are now available.
Good luck and Happy Computing!
2006-12-03 10:00:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gigabits, often written as Gb. Note: that's not the same as Gigabytes, which is denoted with a capital B i.e. GB.
2006-12-03 17:59:31 · answer #2 · answered by Bamba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gigabytes (GB).
I think you need at least 4GB for a Windows XP Installation. On older drives (I mean really old), MB (megabytes)
One GB is equal to 1024 MB, and so on. (GB>MB>KB)
2006-12-03 17:58:31 · answer #3 · answered by Simon H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Megabytes
Gigabytes
Terabytes
2006-12-03 17:59:08 · answer #4 · answered by ninesunz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gigabytes or GB
2006-12-03 18:01:55 · answer #5 · answered by Ryan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋