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Sunset Fish · **Posted:** October 2nd, 2008, 7:11 am

How many Mb (megabit) are in 1 Gb (gigabit)

forgive me for the spellings thats how they are spelled on wikipedia

- thank you

Adbot · **Posted:** October 2nd, 2008, 7:11 am

crwire · **Posted:** October 2nd, 2008, 7:40 am

Yea this is the right area to shove it in

They're usually megabytes or gigabytes if your talking about memory. If you're talking about transfer speeds such as the internet then they are "x"bits, usually per second. To answer your question, things like this usually go up in thousands. To map it out:

Bits: smallest part you can get down to
Byte: 8 bits make 1 byte. Every letter you type is 1 byte :shock:

Kilobyte: I forget (since no one really cares about this) but its 1000 bytes I believe in a kilobyte.
Megabyte: There are 1000 kilobytes in a megabyte
Gigabyte: There are 1000 Megabytes in a gigabyte
Tera byte: Cropping up in some places now due to file sizes increasing, there are 1000 gigabytes in a Tera byte (omg :shock:

)

Now you know all about bits and bytes and won't have to ask about them again.

Gzpro · **Posted:** October 2nd, 2008, 8:52 am

There are around 1,000 Megabytes in a Gigabyte

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

Bogrollbloke · **Posted:** October 2nd, 2008, 3:40 pm

Well. Manufacturers lead to you believe there are 1000k in 1M, but in reality it's nearer 1024k. Same goes for 1024M in 1G. Which is why when you buy a new hdd and it says 500Gig for example, you set it up and there's usually only about 460Gig of space, and this is because computers work in binary, where as manufacturers think it's a better selling point to tell you information in decimal.

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crwire · **Posted:** October 3rd, 2008, 1:54 am

Bogrollbloke wrote:

Well. Manufacturers lead to you believe there are 1000k in 1M, but in reality it's nearer 1024k. Same goes for 1024M in 1G. Which is why when you buy a new hdd and it says 500Gig for example, you set it up and there's usually only about 460Gig of space, and this is because computers work in binary, where as manufacturers think it's a better selling point to tell you information in decimal.

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The way it works is just doubling (to make it easier to understand); 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 etc. To make it easier to sell they round it up or down, as 1 GB is easier than 1.024 GB or 1024 MB.

Also, as you say if there is a reality of 460 GB in a 500GB drive, you can't forget that some memory is required to format the drive, keep partition values in HDD's etc. The extra memory not there is just to make it work.

Now, actually I think we know there are basically 1000 MB in a GB or technically 1024 now :roll:

so that's that ^^

Bogrollbloke · **Posted:** October 3rd, 2008, 6:02 am

crwire wrote:

Bogrollbloke wrote:

Well. Manufacturers lead to you believe there are 1000k in 1M, but in reality it's nearer 1024k. Same goes for 1024M in 1G. Which is why when you buy a new hdd and it says 500Gig for example, you set it up and there's usually only about 460Gig of space, and this is because computers work in binary, where as manufacturers think it's a better selling point to tell you information in decimal.

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Listening to: Bon Jovi - Wild Is The Wind

The way it works is just doubling (to make it easier to understand); 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 etc. To make it easier to sell they round it up or down, as 1 GB is easier than 1.024 GB or 1024 MB.

Also, as you say if there is a reality of 460 GB in a 500GB drive, you can't forget that some memory is required to format the drive, keep partition values in HDD's etc. The extra memory not there is just to make it work.

Now, actually I think we know there are basically 1000 MB in a GB or technically 1024 now :roll:

so that's that ^^

Thanks for telling me what I just said. And that "doubling" thing is actually pretty much what binary is, the 1010101111001 or whatever, imagine the digits under those numbers and you have yourself an understanding of binary.

The drive cache is usually counted in "total space" anyway, which tends to be about ~97% of what the box says it has.

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Adbot · **Posted:** October 3rd, 2008, 6:02 am

crwire · **Posted:** October 3rd, 2008, 9:24 am

I know but seriously how many people bother to understand what binary is =.=" just putting it into simple terms for simple people. Can't expect everyone to know all the terms

Buuut, (off I go rambling again :mrgreen:

) binary is the only way a computer can understand things. Either "on" which is 1, or "off" which is 0. Then certain combinations can get a computer to process them to understand numbers, commands etc. Just accept the fact that they go into these numbers

The cool thing is you can actually look for binary translators on the internet and it converts what you type into binary code.