Decimal vs. binary — why 1 GB isn't always 1 GB
This page uses the decimal (SI) convention: 1 KB = 1000 bytes, 1 MB = 1000 KB, 1 GB = 1000 MB, and 1 TB = 1000 GB. That is how hard-drive and SSD makers, Google, and macOS state capacity. Windows and RAM, by contrast, use the binary (IEC) convention, where 1 KiB = 1024 bytes and 1 GiB = 1024 MiB. The gap grows with size: 1 GiB = 1.073741824 GB, which is why a 1 TB drive (1000 GB) shows as about 931 GiB in Windows. No storage is missing — these are simply two different measuring systems.
Data-storage conversions are exact and rest on fixed factors — for more unit pairs, use our data storage conversion hub.