bITS, BYTES AND BUZZWORDS
tHERE ARE SOME BIT-RELATED TERMINOLOGY THAT COMES UP IN COMPUTER WORK...
Kilobyte (KB, K) About 1,000 bytes of information
Megabyte (meg, MB) Approximately 1,000 KB or 1 million bytes Gigabyte (gig, GB) Approximately 1,000 MB or 1 billion bytes Terabtye (TB) Approximately 1 million MB or 1 trillion bytes Petabyte (PB) Equivalent to 1,024 terabytes or 1 quadrillion bytes |
A file is a collection of information, such as a term paper or a set of names and addresses.
People often measure data transfer speed or memory size in megabits (Mb, Mbits) rather tan megabytes (MB) |