Convert bits and bytes with decimal SI and binary IEC prefixes kept explicit.
Unit Conversions · Digital information
Convert information quantity
Private in-browser conversion · common equivalents included
Digital Storage Converter — visual relationshipUses the current inputs
The visual explains this calculator’s quantity and updates from the entered values. It does not add measurement accuracy or infer missing physical data.
1EnterProvide the known values
2CalculateResults update automatically
3VerifyReview the details and units
Try an example
Enter one finite number. This quantity is treated as a magnitude, so the value cannot be negative. Select explicitly labeled units—especially where US, Imperial, decimal, or binary conventions differ. Results stay in this browser.
Conversion result
Enter valid values to see the result.
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Digital information is counted in bits and bytes, then grouped with decimal SI or binary IEC prefixes. Storage, payload rate, duration, copies, compression, and redundancy answer different questions.
This converter expresses the same information quantity under another stated unit convention.
Use the calculator to keep bits separate from bytes, preserve the selected prefix convention, and expose every efficiency, reserve, overhead, copy, or compression assumption.
The relationship
Keep the basis explicit
source value → canonical bit basis → destination unit
See the workflow
What the calculator is doing
1Information payload2Apply rate, ratio, or storage model3Read capacity, count, or duration
A planned transfer or capacity is not a measured device benchmark. Protocol overhead, filesystem behavior, failures, vendor definitions, and real throughput can change the observed result.
Decimal kB/MB/GB and binary KiB/MiB/GiB are different units and are never silently treated as synonyms.
Enter the value exactly as recorded, then choose its source unit and the unit you need.
Check regional and technical qualifiers in the unit names. US and Imperial gallons, force and mass, absolute temperatures and temperature differences, and decimal and binary data prefixes are deliberately separate.
Use the selected result first, then open the common-equivalents table when you need to compare several standards without re-entering the value.
Calculation method
How the digital storage converter works
The entered information quantity is converted once to the canonical bit basis and then from that basis to the selected output unit.
Decimal kB/MB/GB and binary KiB/MiB/GiB are different units and are never silently treated as synonyms.
source value × source-to-bit relationship → canonical bit value → destination-unit relationship
Supported inputs
Precision and limits
Unit convention
Decimal kB/MB/GB and binary KiB/MiB/GiB are different units and are never silently treated as synonyms.
Precision
Definitions and exact conventional factors are retained internally where available. Display formatting uses up to 12 significant digits; very large or small results use scientific notation. Do not treat displayed digits as measurement accuracy beyond the source value.
Quantity boundary
This page converts information quantity. It does not infer a different physical quantity, material property, environmental condition, exchange rate, calendar rule, or regulatory value needed to make a cross-quantity conversion.
Privacy
Entered values and converted results stay in this browser and are not sent to analytics or third parties.
