Gigabytes (Gb) meaning

A gigabyte (GB) is a measure of data volume used in legal practice to describe, for example, the size of disclosure collections, data room limits, cloud storage quotas, subject access request (SAR) exports, and e‑disclosure budgets. It is a technical, descriptive term rather than one defined in UK or Irish legislation or case law, though it is often defined in contracts and service terms. Two conventions are used: - Decimal (common with storage providers): 1 GB = 1,000 megabytes (MB) = 10^9 bytes. - Binary (common in some software tools): 1 GiB (gibibyte) = 1,024 MiB = 2^30 bytes and is sometimes loosely referred to as “1 GB”. Drafting should specify which convention applies where costs, caps or performance obligations turn on data size. Unit symbols matter. GB means gigabytes (storage/file size). Gb means gigabits (bandwidth). 1 byte = 8 bits, so 1 GB = 8 Gb. Bandwidth commitments are typically expressed as Mb/s or Gb/s (bits per second); storage is in MB/GB (bytes). Usage is broadly consistent across England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland; precision is essential to avoid disputes over limits, fees or service levels.