2006-10-02 06:14:53 · 5 answers · asked by noni 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Megabytes – Gigabytes – Terabyte – Units of Digital Measurement
What is a byte, and what are the other units of measure for digital information?
A byte is a unit of measure for digital information. A single byte contains eight consecutive bits, and is capable of storing a single ASCII character, like "h".
A kilobyte (KB) is 1,024 bytes, not one thousand bytes as might be expected. This odd number results from the fact that computers use binary (base two) math, instead of a decimal (base ten) system.
Computer storage and memory is often measured in megabytes (MB). A medium-sized novel contains about 1MB of information. 1MB is 1,024 kilobytes, or 1,048,576 (1024x1024) bytes, not one million bytes. Again, this number results from the fact that computers use binary math.
1 kilobyte (KB) is 1,024 bytes
1 MB is 1,024 kilobytes
1 gigabyte (GB) is 1,024MB, or 1,073,741,824 (1024x1024x1024) bytes.
1 terabyte (TB) is 1,024GB; 1TB is about the same amount of information as all of the books in a large library, or roughly 1,610 CDs worth of data.
1 petabyte (PB) is 1,024TB. Indiana University is now building storage systems capable of holding petabytes of data.
1 exabyte (EB) is 1,024PB.
1 zettabyte (ZB) is 1,024EB.
1 yottabyte (YB) 1,024ZB.
2006-10-02 06:17:28 · answer #1 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 20⤊ 6⤋
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how many gigabytes in a terabyte?
2015-08-06 18:23:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1024 gigabytes in a terabyte
2006-10-02 06:17:14 · answer #3 · answered by danielrosborne 4 · 11⤊ 0⤋
either 1000 or 1024; both conversions are used but if you are talking about the advertized storage of harddisks, usually 1000 is used by the mfr because it makes the drive look bigger, i.e. 1 gigabyte is a billion bytes (10^9 not 1024^3) and a terabyte is a trillion bytes (10^12 not 1024^4)
2006-10-02 06:22:55 · answer #4 · answered by Josh Coalson 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋
1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes
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2006-10-02 06:23:11 · answer #5 · answered by Paul 7 · 10⤊ 0⤋
a terabyte is approximately thousand billion bytes that is, a thousand gigabytes
2006-10-02 06:18:42 · answer #6 · answered by vishnu 1 · 2⤊ 6⤋
there are 1000 GB
2006-10-02 06:23:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 7⤋
1000, though the unit for kb are 1024, it should be 1024Mb in a Tb
2006-10-02 06:17:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 10⤋