How to Use gigabyte in a Sentence

gigabyte

noun
  • Some are more than a gigabyte in size.
    — PC Magazine, 15 Nov. 2025
  • The cheapest plan is $20 a month for just one gigabyte of data.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
  • At the time, computers had a massive, two gigabyte hard drive.
    — Tamara Chuang, The Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2017
  • Installing the program takes up more than a gigabyte of your hard drive, so be sure to use a machine with room to spare.
    — PC Magazine, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Luckily, as our digital lives have grown so have the gigabytes that can store them.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2019
  • The per-gigabyte cost of these is higher than average, though this deal narrows the gap.
    — Gear Team, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The computer now starts with that same chip and 512 gigabytes of space.
    — Chris Welch, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • The $15 plan is for anyone, but comes with just 2 gigabytes of data per month.
    — SFChronicle.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • There are 256 gigabytes of storage, which is eight times more than the Switch.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Data traffic tends to be in the megabytes to hundreds of megabytes per day, which is still a fraction of a gigabyte.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Many cars today produce around twenty-five gigabytes of data per hour.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
  • An exabyte is equal to 1 billion gigabytes.
    — Ari Levy, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This is available with up to 512 gigabytes of storage.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The second number to look out for is the capacity of the drive, in gigabytes.
    — John Burek, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
  • In fact, buyers can try out the Wi-Fi hotspot free for the first six months or first two gigabytes of data.
    — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2019
  • This version also comes with 32 gigabytes of storage, which is enough to hold tens of thousands of books.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 15 July 2019
  • Cell service is limited, and the Internet is slow and paid for by the gigabyte.
    — Caroline Lester, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The largest language models take up hundreds of gigabytes of memory.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Nov. 2025
  • All for a touchscreen phone that, for its base model, cost $499 for just 4 gigabytes of storage.
    — Rex Crum, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2017
  • The attacker does not need to download the entire gpt-oss model, which can be several gigabytes in size.
    — PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Most games today are digital downloads that can reach over 100 gigabytes.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Apple is softening the blow by doubling the base storage amount to 512 gigabytes for the first time in that line.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Cloud storage gets chaotic when your files live in five different apps and each extra gigabyte means another monthly fee.
    — New Atlas, 20 Jan. 2026
  • On the by-the-gigabyte plans, both Charter and Comcast allow tethering at high speeds.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 5 July 2018
  • These models usually cost more per gigabyte but have more extensive drop, dust and water protection.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2025
  • When Mosley started in the tech industry decades ago, Seagate’s storage drives held less than one gigabyte of data.
    — Steve Gelsi, semafor.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Available in matte black, white and soft pink, the new smartphone starts at $599 with 256 gigabytes of storage.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of getting lost in gigabytes of error data, designers now spend time solving real problems.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The Note Pro has 64 gigabytes of storage and four small microphones — double those found on the Note.
    — Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2026
  • But for those who do use more than a terabyte, a $10 charge will be applied for every block of 50 gigabytes more that Cox has to provide.
    — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 29 June 2017

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