how many megabytes in a gigabyte?
600 Megabytes is about the amount of data that will fit on a CD-ROM disk. Gigabyte: A Gigabyte is approximately 1000 Megabytes. A Gigabyte is a very common term used these days when referring to disk space or drive storage. 1 Gigabyte of data is almost twice the amount of data that a CD-ROM can hold. But it's about one thousand times the capacity of a 3-1/2 floppy disk. 1 Gigabyte could hold the contents of about 10 yards of books on a shelf.