Question

An external computer flash drive can hold 1 gigabyte of data. How many bytes is this?

Answer 1

Answer: 1 gigabyte of a computer drive can hold of about $10^9$ bytes.

Explanation: We are given an external computer flash drive which can hold a data of about 1 gigabyte.

We know that,

1 gigabyte contains 1000 Megabytes of data

and 1 megabyte of a data can hold of about 1 million bytes.

From the above conversion, we get

$1GB=(1000\times 10^6)bytes=10^9bytes$

Answer 2

"gig..." means a billion of something, or 10^9. In binary hardware, it's actually 1,073,741,824 bytes. That's 2^30.