Gigabyte to terabyte-size record files are not unusual. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB. Hard drive and SSD manufacturers use the gigabyte to mean bytes. The cost per gigabyte of flash memory remains significantly higher than that of hard disks. S3-based storage is priced per gigabyte per month. On 8 August 2006 Gigabyte announced a joint venture with Asus. On 8 August 2006, Asus announced a joint venture with Gigabyte Technology. Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The spacecraft has a 512 gigabyte solid-state storage device. O PCI addresses are still overlapping somewhere between the 3rd and 4th gigabyte. The term "gigabyte" is commonly used to mean either 1000 bytes or 1024 bytes. The JEDEC memory standards use IEEE 100 nomenclature which quote the gigabyte as (2 bytes). Then iPod started as a 5 gigabyte player capable of storing around 1000 songs. This totals to bytes (8032.5 MiB), commonly referred to as the 8.4 gigabyte barrier. This storage is split into hundreds of small 1-5 gigabyte data blocks.