Plural of gigabyte

regular plural

The plural of gigabyte is gigabytes.

Forms of gigabyte

The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage.1981, IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide, IBM, page 1
It does not take much effort these days to accumulate several hundred gigabytes of data.2007 August 2, larry Magid, “On a Home Network, the Right Drive Means Storage for All”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the...
Microdrives that can hold several gigabytes (see Figure 2.20) have been available as add-ons for portable devices.2010, Kenneth Baldauf, Ralph Stair, Succeeding with Technology, page 77. From the entry add-on
Where does the enterprise store its gigabytes, terabytes and googolbytes?1999 March 1, InfoWorld, volume 21, number 9. From the entry googolbyte
In the example above, it appears that using gigabytes inflates the drive capacity by well over one gigabyte (or gibibyte—take your pick).2004, Carla Schroder, Linux Cookbook: Practical Advice for Linux System Administrators, O'Reilly, →ISBN. From the entry gibibyte

What is the plural of gigabyte?: The plural of gigabyte is gigabytes.
Is gigabyte countable?: Gigabyte is a countable noun.

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