Data Measurement Chart




Source : http://www.hjo3.net/bytes.html


NameEqual to:Size in Bytes
Bit1 bit1/8
Nibble4 bits1/2 (rare)
Byte8 bits1
Kilobyte1,024 bytes1,024
Megabyte1,024 kilobytes1,048,576
Gigabyte1,024 megabytes1,073,741,824
Terrabyte1,024 gigabytes1,099,511,627,776
Petabyte1,024 terrabytes1,125,899,906,842,624
Exabyte1,024 petabytes1,152,921,504,606,846,976
Zettabyte1,024 exabytes1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
Yottabyte1,024 zettabytes1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176
Then there is the hypothetical "Googolbyte" which would be a number of bytes equal to a 10 followed by 100 zeroes.
NameExample(s) of Size
ByteA single letter, like "A."
KilobyteA 14-line e-mail. A pretty lengthy paragraph of text.
MegabyteA good sized novel. Shelley's "Frankenstein" is only about four-fifths of a megabyte.
GigabyteThe multi-player version of Diablo II, installed. About 300 MP3s. About 40 minutes of video at DVD quality (this varies, depending on maker). A CD holds about three-fourths of a gigabyte.
TerrabyteAbout thirty and a half weeks worth of high-quality audio. Statistically, the average person has spoken about this much by age 25.
PetabyteThe amount of data available on the web in the year 2000 is thought to occupy 8 petabytes (theorized by Roy Williams).
ExabyteIn a world with a population of 3 billion, all information generated anually in any form would occupy a single exabyte. Supposedly, everything ever said by everyone who is or has lived on the planet Earth would take up 5 exabytes.
ZettabyteThree hundred trillion MP3s; Two hundred billion DVDs. If every person living in the year 2000 had had a 180 gigabyte hard drive filled completely with data, all the data on all those drives would occupy 1 zettabyte.
Yottabyte???

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