Gigabytes (GB) to Exabytes (EB) Conversion
Gigabytes
The gigabyte (GB) is a unit of digital information equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes (10⁹ bytes) in SI decimal, or 1,073,741,824 bytes in binary convention. It is the dominant unit for consumer storage — smartphone internal storage, USB drives, and SD cards are sold in gigabytes. One hour of standard HD streaming consumes approximately 3 GB; one hour of 4K video requires 7–15 GB depending on encoding. Monthly mobile data plans are universally priced per gigabyte.
Exabytes
The exabyte (EB) is a unit of digital information equal to 10¹⁸ bytes (1,000 petabytes). It represents the scale of total global data creation and consumption. According to IDC estimates, the global datasphere — the total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed — surpassed 100 zettabytes (100,000 exabytes) per year in the early 2020s. The exabyte is primarily a unit of planning and forecasting at the level of cloud providers and national data infrastructure.
| Gigabytes (GB) | Exabytes (EB) |
|---|---|
| 0.1 GB | 1.0E-10 EB |
| 1 GB | 1.0E-9 EB |
| 2 GB | 2.0E-9 EB |
| 3 GB | 3.0E-9 EB |
| 5 GB | 5.0E-9 EB |
| 10 GB | 1.0E-8 EB |
| 20 GB | 2.0E-8 EB |
| 30 GB | 3.0E-8 EB |
| 50 GB | 5.0E-8 EB |
| 100 GB | 1.0E-7 EB |
| 1000 GB | 1.0E-6 EB |