How many KB's are in 1 GB?

Answer 1

whether you are talking about gigabytes or gigabits shouldn't effect the answer. the confusion is in the abbreviation. since both bytes and bits both start with B, their differentiation is done by using capital and lowercase Bs. I still don't know for certain, but I beleive that the uppercase B refers to bytes and the lowercase b is for bits. the key thing to know is that there are 8 bits per byte. 1B = 8b. now, a kilobit is 1,024 bits, and a kilobyte is 1,024 bytes. similarly, a megabit is 1,024 kilobits or 1,048,576 bits and a megabyte is 1,024 kilobytes or 1,048,576 bytes. Finally a gigabit is 1,024 megabits or 1,048,576 kilobits or 1,073,741,824 bits, as a gigabyte is 1,024 megabytes or 1,048,576 kilobytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes which is actually the same as 8,589,934,592 bits. i just multiplied how many bytes times 8 giving it in terms of bits.
Generally, the decision of which term to use is decided by what you're describing. Transfer rates are usually spoken in bits/second or kilobits/second. when you download something, the speed is usually recorded in bits/sec. on the other hand, when you are talking about storage or size, you use bytes. like this file is 20 megabytes. or i have a 500gig harddrive. in this case, "gig" is short for gigabyte. i think when it's abbreviated, it means they are refering to bytes.
OK, so here's my exercise: you have a 10megabyte file, and your network can transfer files at a rate of 1Mb/s. how long would it take to transfer the file? the answer is NOT 10 seconds. it's actually 80 seconds. if 1 megabit gets transfered in one second, it takes 8 seconds for a megabyte to transfer, and you need to transfer 10 megabytes.
Another exercise: you have want to download a movie which is 1gig. your connection is only giving you a speed of 50kb/s. how long will it take to download?
50kb/s is the same as 6.25KB/s and since there are 1,048,576 kilobytes in a gig, it would take 6.25 times 1,048,576 = 6,553,600 seconds to download. now to get that in hours we'll divide by 3,600 to get 1820.4444444 hours. now divide by 24 to see how many days, 75days. wow, that seems very large, i may have made a mistake somewhere. well, if it's correct, that would make me want to get a better internet connection. with my cable modem, i can usually download a 1gig file in a night. that's also because i'm getting speeds up to 800kb/s. that's a megabyte every 10 seconds. so it would take 10,000 seconds for a gig in under 3 hours

Answer 2

Well... There is a lot of controversy over this. There is the mathematical answer and the "marketing" answer.

The "Marketing" answer is: 1000kb in a Mb, and 1000 Mb in a Gb so the answer would be 1,000,000. Companies do this to market drives and such because its easier for most people to understand.

The mathematical answer though would be
1024k in a Mb and then 1024Mb in a Gb for 1048576k.

Answer 3

1,000,000 kb = 1 Gb

Answer 4

The guy who posted above me is wrong. I can't even read his number. He is thinking in terms of kb, not KB.

1024KB equals 1MB, and 1024MB equals 1GB. So, 1,024,000KB equals 1GB.

Note: Companies state that 1000MB equals 1GB. This isn't true. They basically round the 1024 off to 1000, but that isn't exact.

Answer 5

1 gigabit = 1 048 576 kilobits

Answer 6

If you mean kilobytes and Gigabytes than:
1 gigabyte = 1 048 576 kilobytes

Answer 7

The absolute gobstopping truth is: 1024 per mb if you are a programmer {or a computer}. 1000 if you build harddrives. That's why you have less than you purchased.

Answer 8

Numbering systems!

1000 = one "kilo"

1000000= one "meg"

1000000000= one "gig"