Units

Kilobyte

A kilobyte is a measure of computer memory or storage. It is generally thought of as 1,000 bytes. However, to be completely correct, it is actually 1,024 bytes.

Petabyte

'Peta' is a huge number. In decimal terms it is 1,000,000,000,000,000 or, one thousand million million, or ten raised to the power of 15

Nibble

The name given to 4 bits or half a byte.

Gigabyte

A Gigabyte is a measurement of computer memory capacity. It is equivalent to 1024 Megabytes

Megabyte

A Megabyte is a measure of computer memory or storage. It is generally thought of as one million bytes or 1,000 kilobytes. However, to be completely correct, it is actually 1,048,576 bytes or 1,024 kilobytes.

Zettabyte

Bigger than a Exabyte. Smaller than a Yottabyte.

Bit

A bit is the smallest amount of information that a computer can store. It can be set to 0 (false) or 1 (true), this is called binary. Eight bits make a byte.

Terabyte

Another word for 1,000 Gigabytes.

Exabyte

Bigger than a Petabyte. Smaller than a Zettabyte.

Yottabyte

Bigger than a Zettabyte.

Byte

This is the basis of sizing all types of memory from the most humble microprocessor in a washing machine to the most gigantic supercomputers. A byte is a series of 8 bits. One character on a keyboard is a single byte