How many minutes are in 1 gigabyte?

Answer 1

A gigabyte is a unit of information (storage), whereas minutes are time, so they aren't comparable directly. One gigabyte means either one billion bytes, or 2^30 =1073741824 bytes (often called a gibibyte, the "bi" meaning binary, so a giga-binary-byte). Each byte is made up of 8 bits where a bit can be one of two values, such as 1 or 0, or true or false, or yes or no.

If you mean "how many minutes of music" or "how many minutes of video" can fit in one gigabyte, that depends. A simple rule of thumb is that using modern compression, 1 megabyte (1/1000th of a gigabyte) can store about one minute of music, or about 7 seconds of standard-definition video, or around 2.5 seconds of high-definition video (both video types including their corresponding audio tracks) .

So, 1 gigabyte can store about 1,000 minutes (16 hours, 40 minutes) of music, or about 1.94 hours (1 hour, 53 minutes) of standard-def video, or about 33 minutes of hi-def video.