Bandwidth and data transfer are the most commonly used terms on internet specially seen on webhosting plans of different hosting companies. But technically there is lot of difference between them.
Bandwidth can be defined as quantity of data that can be transferred in per unit time.It is generally expressed in bits /sec (bps) or bytes/sec.
Data transfer is amount of traffic generated from a
website hosting. It is expressed in bytes, kilo bytes (KB), mega bytes (MB) or giga bytes (GB).