Convert Gigabytes to Petabytes
Convert Gigabytes (GB) to Petabytes (PB) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
PB = GB × 1.000000000e-6
About Gigabytes
A gigabyte (GB) = 10⁹ bytes (SI). All consumer HDDs, SSDs, SD cards, USB drives, and smartphones advertise in GB. Media sizes: 4K Blu-ray 66-100 GB; 4K Netflix film 10-15 GB; modern AAA PC game 50-200 GB; Google Maps offline country data 5-30 GB. The IBM 350 RAMAC (1956) stored 0.00000375 GB; a Seagate Exos 20 TB holds 20,000 GB - 5.3-million-fold increase in 66 years. 1 GB = 10⁹ bytes = 1,000 MB.
About Petabytes
A petabyte (PB) = 10¹⁵ bytes (SI). Major platforms operate at PB scale: Meta ingests > 4 PB/day; YouTube adds several PB of video content daily. CERN Run 3 produced ≈ 90 PB in 2022. 1,000-genome cohort (WGS at 30×) ≈ 0.4 PB. English Wikipedia with media ≈ 10 PB. A rack of Blu-ray cold storage (Facebook Project Amber) holds 1 PB. 1 PB = 10¹⁵ bytes = 1,000 TB.
Quick Reference Table
| Gigabytes (GB) | Petabytes (PB) |
|---|---|
| 1 GB | 1 × 10-6 PB |
| 2 GB | 2 × 10-6 PB |
| 5 GB | 5 × 10-6 PB |
| 10 GB | 1 × 10-5 PB |
| 25 GB | 2.5 × 10-5 PB |
| 50 GB | 5 × 10-5 PB |
| 100 GB | 1 × 10-4 PB |