the game i wanna download is 399mb and i have 12.5gb open on my hard drive and 29mb on the xbox itself whats the differece of storage between mb ang gb i have no idea how to tell if i have enough storage space to get this game 
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storage question
09/04/10 9:25 pm | #1
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You have enough room.
1000MB = 1GB
1000MB = 1GB
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09/04/10 9:36 pm | #3
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thank you soo much for helpin me out im still getting used to my xbox the first year i had it i basically used it as an oversized dvd player never got to go online and had the 1 game disck the console came with i have the basic arcade version from walmart
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09/04/10 10:42 pm | #4
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What game...if you dont mind me asking 
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09/05/10 12:07 am | #6
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You have enough room.
1000MB = 1GB
1000MB = 1GB
ACTUALLY, if you want to get technical, 1024 megabytes to a gigabyte.
1024mb to 1gb.
1024b-1kb.
1024kb - 1mb.
1024mb-1gb.
1024gb-1terabyte.
just saying, because 24 mb is EASILY an arcade game (frogger, paperboy, galaga etc.).
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09/05/10 12:22 am | #7
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Quote by Bay:
You have enough room.
1000MB = 1GB
1000MB = 1GB
ACTUALLY, if you want to get technical, 1024 megabytes to a gigabyte.
1024mb to 1gb.
1024b-1kb.
1024kb - 1mb.
1024mb-1gb.
1024gb-1terabyte.
just saying, because 24 mb is EASILY an arcade game (frogger, paperboy, galaga etc.).
I thought it depended on what you were talking about.
Officially, there are 1000 (103) megabytes (MB) in a gigabyte (GB). So 500MB would equal 0.5 GB.
This definition is used in hard drives, portable memory drives (memory cards, USB drives), DVDs, Blu-ray disks, and most measures of performance. Some software (such as Mac OS X and the Linux kernel) uses this definition when displaying file and disk sizes.
MB stands for megabyte. Mb with lowercase b is ambiguous, as it has been used for both "megabyte" and "megabit". Writing megabytes as MB and megabits as Mbit avoids any confusion.
Memory manufacturer definition
Another definition is used by memory manufacturers and some software, like Microsoft Windows. They use 1024 (210) megabytes per gigabyte, but this is more properly called a gigabinary byte (GiB), sometimes contracted to gibibyte.
Using the non-standard definition:
* 1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes
* 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes or 8192 megabits
Examples:
* 1,000 megabyte (MB) = 1 gigabyte (GB)
* 1,024 mebibyte (MiB) = 1 gibibyte (GiB)
* 1 megabyte = 8 megabits
* mega- = 1,000,000
* giga- = 1,000,000,000
* mebi- = 1,024 x 1,024 = 1,048,576
* gibi- = 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024 = 1,073,741,824
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09/05/10 12:24 am | #8
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Well in my computer literacy class back like 10 years ago in college (lol) everything was 1024 = 1.
8 Bits = 1 Byte
1024 Bytes = 1 KiloByte
1024 KiloBytes = 1 MegaByte
1024 MegaBytes = 1 GigaByte
1024 GigaBytes = 1 TeraByte
That's how it works.
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You can try it here, Bay. Use the Storage (2^n) portion.
Keep in mind in data communication 1 kilobit = 1000 bits, while in data storage 1 Kilobyte = 1024 Bytes. This conversion calculator rounds all values to 5 significant digits.
Because of computer architecture and memory address boundaries, bytes are usually some multiple or exponent of two. However, the terms Bytes, Megabytes and Gigabytes are often used ambiguously. Whether values are calculated using the decimal or binary systems depends on the context. For example, most hard disk drive and flash-memory manufacturers define 1 gigabyte as a million bytes (decimal gigabyte, 109), while computer operating systems usually calculate drive/file/RAM size in binary gigabytes (230).
In computer networking the conventional SI decimal units are followed. Manufacturers of networking equipment always use 1000-bit kilobits as their basic unit of measurement.
8 Bits = 1 Byte
1024 Bytes = 1 KiloByte
1024 KiloBytes = 1 MegaByte
1024 MegaBytes = 1 GigaByte
1024 GigaBytes = 1 TeraByte
That's how it works.
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You can try it here, Bay. Use the Storage (2^n) portion.
Keep in mind in data communication 1 kilobit = 1000 bits, while in data storage 1 Kilobyte = 1024 Bytes. This conversion calculator rounds all values to 5 significant digits.
Because of computer architecture and memory address boundaries, bytes are usually some multiple or exponent of two. However, the terms Bytes, Megabytes and Gigabytes are often used ambiguously. Whether values are calculated using the decimal or binary systems depends on the context. For example, most hard disk drive and flash-memory manufacturers define 1 gigabyte as a million bytes (decimal gigabyte, 109), while computer operating systems usually calculate drive/file/RAM size in binary gigabytes (230).
In computer networking the conventional SI decimal units are followed. Manufacturers of networking equipment always use 1000-bit kilobits as their basic unit of measurement.
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09/05/10 6:18 am | #9
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TMI you nerds
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09/05/10 11:07 am | #10
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Well, this discussion just got out of hand in a very nerdy way. Usually it's because every one hates each other and they start name calling. In this case they were trying to outdo one another with fact knowledge.
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09/05/10 12:13 pm | #11
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@ Meta and Mo, Bay and I WILL kill you!
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just printed this whole thread out and added it to my xbox refernce box
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When you're talking about storage (like this situation) it's 10n (1000 MB per GB). When you're talking about data communication it's 2n (1024 MiB per GiB).
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09/05/10 3:02 pm | #14
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Re: Re: storage question
09/05/10 4:01 pm | #15
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When you're talking about storage (like this situation) it's 10n (1000 MB per GB). When you're talking about data communication it's 2n (1024 MiB per GiB).
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