A terabyte is equal to 1,024 gigabytes. This might be a bit confusing at first, but the reason lies in the way computer storage is calculated.
In computing, storage units follow a binary system. A kilobyte (KB) is 1,024 bytes, a megabyte (MB) is 1,024 kilobytes, and a gigabyte (GB) is 1,024 megabytes. Thus, when you scale up to a terabyte (TB), you multiply 1,024 by itself three times:
- 1 TB = 1,024 GB
This means that one terabyte can hold a substantial amount of data, making it a common unit of measurement for hard drives and storage devices today.