Digital Storage Converter

A digital storage converter translates data sizes between units — megabytes to gigabytes, bytes to bits, or gigabytes to the binary gibibytes your operating system may actually be reporting. The core unit is the byte (8 bits); decimal units then scale by 1,000 (1 KB = 1,000 B; 1 MB = 1,000,000 B) while binary units scale by 1,024 (1 KiB = 1,024 B; 1 MiB = 1,048,576 B).

That decimal-versus-binary split is the source of the classic mystery: drive makers sell decimal terabytes, but Windows reports binary units — so a “1 TB” drive shows up as roughly 931 “GB” (properly GiB). Neither number is wrong; they are different units, and this converter handles both families.

This converter covers bits, bytes, and both unit families: decimal KB, MB, GB, TB and binary KiB, MiB, GiB — converting between any pair instantly as you type.

Practical jobs it solves: working out how many 4 MB photos fit on a 128 GB card (about 32,000), converting an internet speed of 100 megabits per second into real download throughput (12.5 MB/s), checking why a 500 GB SSD shows 465 GiB in Windows, or converting a database dump of 2,300,000,000 bytes into readable gigabytes (2.3 GB).

Anchors: 8 bits = 1 byte, 1 GB = 1,000 MB, 1 GiB = 1,024 MiB = 1.0737 GB. All conversions are computed exactly, in your browser.