Gigabytes (GB) to Petabytes (PB) 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.
Petabytes
The petabyte (PB) is a unit of digital information equal to 10¹⁵ bytes (1,000 terabytes). At the petabyte scale, measurement enters the realm of enterprise data centres and scientific research archives. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN generates approximately 15 petabytes of data per year. Major social media platforms and cloud providers store and process data in the exabyte range, making petabytes the operational scale of big data analytics.
| Gigabytes (GB) | Petabytes (PB) |
|---|---|
| 0.1 GB | 1.0E-7 PB |
| 1 GB | 1.0E-6 PB |
| 2 GB | 2.0E-6 PB |
| 3 GB | 3.0E-6 PB |
| 5 GB | 5.0E-6 PB |
| 10 GB | 1.0E-5 PB |
| 20 GB | 2.0E-5 PB |
| 30 GB | 3.0E-5 PB |
| 50 GB | 5.0E-5 PB |
| 100 GB | 0.0001 PB |
| 1000 GB | 0.001 PB |