how much bigger is a giga byte than a mega byte?

Question

I have a 4gb flash disk and I want to know how many pictures I can fit on it. : )

Answer 1

1 giga = 1024 mega....Depends on the size of your pictures.

Answer 2

1 Giga Byte = 1024 Mega Byte

Answer 3

Well that all depends on the size of the pictures but let's say you had a digital camera that you purchased recently say about 7megapixel. It has a 4gb flash and each picture you took stored around 2mb. So here is the math

1 byte =1024kilobyte
1 megabyte = 1024kilobyte
1 gigabyte = 1024 megabyte
1 pictures = 2mb


Thus
4gb=4096mb
4096mb/2mb = 2048 pictures

Answer 4

A Gb is bascially 1000Mb. Think of it like this. A blank CD is 700Mb. So your 4Gb drive would hold almost 6 CD's (700Mb x 6 = 4.2 Gb). Your drive is just a tad short off holding an entire DVD of data (dvd=4.7Gb).

It depends on your picture, what format it is, as to how much you can fit. Most cameras overexagerate the picture, making it like 2500x1000 size which will consume your pc screen by at least 2 fold. Those picture can be 1-5Mb each. If that is the case, then you can use a picture editing program to resize it down to a regular sized photo of about 800x600 or so. That would take the size of the picture down to about 100Kb (1000Kb = 1Mb). So with that in mind, you can potentially get 10 pics per 1Mb. 100 pics would then be 10Mb, 1000 pics would be 100Mb, 10,000 pics would be 1Gb and 40,000 pics for 4Gb. Whew.

Answer 5

A gigabyte is 1,000 megabyte.

Photos vary in size. So let's say that you have a modestly high resolution photo that is 1.2MB. You can have about 3,300 photos on your flash disk.

But if you really cherish these photos for long term, buy CD-R media and BURN at a slow speed, like 4X. Don't touch the burn side at all, but move these CD-R disks directly into a closed case; where they are NEVER USED. The Library of Congress says that if CD-R media is burned at a slower speed, and stored carefully, they will survive for at least 50 years. DO NOT USE a Disk label, but instead, make the front of the CD with a Sharpie Permanent Marker. Other media might eventually fail.

Good luck and Happy Computing!

Answer 6

1Giga Byte=1024 or 2^10 Mega Byte ;-)

Answer 7

This really depends on the type of camera you have and the settings you shoot on. One good quality shot can be 3 mb or 10 mb.
As a rule, 1024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte. Therefore 4069 mb of space. That should hole at least 400 photos or so.

Answer 8

Every pictures may vary from the amounts of color, its resolution which may affect its size of each pic. I put it in a simple way 1 GB = 1024MB lets say each pic is 1MB then ur flash disk can fit in 1024 x 4 = 4096 pics. so it depands on ur pic size and to be exact 1 GB is 1024 MB

Answer 9

That's 4000 MB which can hold hundreds of pictures.

1000 bytes is a kilobyte
1000 KB is a MB
1000 MB is a GB (a thousand million bytes)

See Gigabyte at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

Answer 10

1 giga byte is equivalent to 1024mega bytes which is equivalent to 1024 kilobytes, bytes and so on. so your number of pictures depends on the settings your camera works on.