A bit (short for "binary digit") is the smallest possible unit of information on a PC. A single bit can hold only one of two values: 0 or 1.
A byte (short for "binary term") is a unit of storage capable of holding a single character. On almost all modern computers, a byte is equal to 8 bits.
A kilobyte (KB) is 1,024 bytes.
A megabyte (MB) is 1,048,576 bytes, or 1024 kilobytes.
A gigabyte (GB) is 1,073,741,824 bytes, or 1024 megabytes.
A terabyte (TB) is 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, or 1024 gigabytes.
The old floppy disk that could hold 1.44 megabytes, for example, was capable of storing approximately 1.4 million characters, or about 3,000 pages of information. An 100 gigabyte hard drive can store about 100 billion characters and can over 200 million pages of information.
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