How to Use gigabyte in a Sentence

gigabyte

noun

• The cheapest plan is $20 a month for just one gigabyte of data.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
• Mine was eight gigabytes, enough to hold about 2,000 hours of music.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2018
• 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
• The $15 plan is for anyone, but comes with just 2 gigabytes of data per month.
  — SFChronicle.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Google Drive sells 100 gigabytes of storage for $2 a month.
  — Douglas MacMillan, WSJ, 18 July 2018
• Each node has two gigabyte ethernet ports (one of which serves the main router), along with a USB 2.0 port.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 7 Oct. 2022
• 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
• The second number to look out for is the capacity of the drive, in gigabytes.
  — John Burek, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
• 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 per-gigabyte cost of these is higher than average, though this deal narrows the gap.
  — Gear Team, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• At the time, computers had a massive, two gigabyte hard drive.
  — Tamara Chuang, The Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2017
• Wong, Helium’s COO, said that the price point will be $5 per month for 1 gigabyte of data usage.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
• Among the evidence found: A 16 gigabyte thumb drive that contained thousands of files.
  — Carli Teproff, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
• On the by-the-gigabyte plans, both Charter and Comcast allow tethering at high speeds.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 5 July 2018
• T-Mobile will also refund $10 a month for each line that doesn’t use at least 2 gigabytes of data.
  — Tamara Chuang, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2017
• Luckily, as our digital lives have grown so have the gigabytes that can store them.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2019
• This slim, compact flash drive has 128 gigabytes of storage.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 3 Aug. 2019
• According to the test, the modem transferred a gigabyte’s worth of data in 17 seconds.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 4 Dec. 2018
• But this quickly changed back to the 90-something gigabyte number, as though the Finder needed a moment to look at the screen saver folder and exclude it from the count.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2023
• Google Fi: Google charges you $20 per line and $10 per gigabyte (that includes unlimited talk and text).
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 24 June 2020
• That is nothing compared with the gigabytes of data used to train algorithms to recognise faces or drive cars.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2019
• Another pair of 8 gigabyte sticks—16 gigabytes total, math is fun—this set is largely the same as the above pair.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
• Almost all of them are people with money and kids and years’ and sometimes decades’ worth of gigabyte-gobbling outtakes.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• These images are really big; each one was like a gigabyte.
  — Swapna Krishna, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2023
• Android Go is being designed for O phones with one gigabyte or less of memory, down to 512 megabytes.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 19 May 2017
• Drake has appeared to open his archives with the release of a massive folder consisting of 100 gigabytes of footage from studio sessions, audio clips and three new songs.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 6 Aug. 2024
• If someone released 100 gigabytes of videos and images of you, how much of it would be embarrassing or awkward or goofy or uncomfortable?
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024