
The average user stores a mix of photos, videos and documents. And individual external hard drives often start at 1 TB of storage, with larger options going past 32 TB. 1 TB is also about 4 (256 GB) Windows or MacBook laptops – and some storage space is eaten up by system software. Compared to the average smartphone, 1 TB of storage is the same as roughly 16 (64 GB) iPhones or Samsung Galaxy devices. Now, let’s compare that to physical storage devices we use every day. So how many gigabytes or megabytes are in a terabyte? 1 TB equals 1,000 gigabytes (GB) or 1,000,000 megabytes (MB).


When talking about data storage, we often measure whole system storage capacity in terabytes, but most individual files take up megabytes or gigabytes for large files.
