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Know your BITS and BYTES!

Know your BITS and BYTES!

The amount of data being stored electronically has been growing exponentially. I had never heard of some of the new terms for the larger amounts over Gigabyte such as PB, EB, ZB or YB until recently. How many will you recognize?

  Bit A bit is a binary digit, taking a value of either 0 or 1. For example, the number 10010111 is 8 bits long, or in most cases, one modern PC byte. Binary digits are a basic unit of information storage and communication in digital computing and digital information theory.
  Byte 8 Bits    
KB Kilobyte  

 1,024 Bytes

8,192 Bits

MB Megabyte 1,024 KB

 1,048,576 Bytes

8,388,608 Bits

GB Gigabyte 1,024 MB

 1,073,741,824 Bytes

 8,589,934,592 Bits

TB Terabyte 1,024 GB 1,099,511,627,776 Bytes 8,796,093,022,208 Bits
PB Petabyte 1,024 TB 1,125,899,906,842,624 Bytes 9,007,199,254,740,992 Bits
EB Exabyte 1,024 PB 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 Bytes 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 Bits
ZB Zetabyte 1,024 PB 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 Bytes 9,444,732,965,739,290,427,392 Bits
YB Yotabyte 1,024 ZB 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 Bytes 9,671,406,556,917,033,397,649,408 Bits

 

 

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Posted by John Kisha on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:03 PM
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