Diference between gb kb mb and all those kinds of information capacity.?

Question

I hear of those a lot, but the problem is that i dont know their meanings. Please, the first person that explains it throughfully to me will receive those points for best answer!

Answer 1

In reference to Xtrobe: 8 bits is a byte, 4 bits is a nibble.

What you are asking is basic mathematically quantities related to the Base 2 system. We normally count in Base 10. The quantities however are still related to the Base 10 system all accept the quantities called bit, byte or nibble.

A bit is basically related to one data input on a microchip. When you have 4 bits or 4 data lines this is termed a nibble. Increasing this to 8 bits or 8 data lines and the result is a byte.

Now since we have to keep a relationship between the Base 2 system and Base 10 system, 1024 bytes relates to 1 kilobyte or 1 kB.

Most references leave out 1024 and simply use 1000. The rest is just simply mathematical quantities.

1 MB = 1 million bytes
1 GB = 1 billion bytes
1 TB = 1 trillion bytes

Answer 2

Bytes are just what computers run on...I use to be like you too and try to figure out what it means....
1KB=1024 bytes
1MB=1024 KB KB means Kilo Bytes
1GB=1024 MB MB means Mega Bytes
1TB= 1024 GB GB means Giga Bytes
TB means Tera bytes

GB's are what most harddrive sizes hold now....1 song on your computer is like atleast 3 MB which would take like 1024 MB to equal 1 GB...so 1 GB would hold atleast 300 so songs...hope this was any help...

Answer 3

These are tricky because of you don't maintain the case it could be referring to either bits or bytes. Normally when discussing network transfer speeds the b is lowercase and refers to bits. When discussing drive or memory space it refers to bytes and is a capital B.

lower case b conversions are the easiest. 1 mb = 1000kb = 1000000 b.

uppercase b conversions are trickier. 1mB = 1024 kB = 1048576 B

Answer 4

hmm... let me explain u in a easier way..
4bits = 1Byte
1024Bytes = 1 kilobyte or 1 kb
1024kb = 1Megabyte or mb
1024mb = 1 Gb or gigabyte
1024gb = 1 Tb or terabyte.. and so on...... :)

Answer 5

1 petabyte(PB) is equal to 1024 terabyte(TB).1 terabyte(TB) is equal to 1024 gigabytes(GB). 1 gigabyte(GB) is equal to 1024 megabytes(MB). 1 megabyte(MB) is equal to 1024 kilobytes(KB). 1 kilobyte(KB) is equal to 1024 bytes(B). 1 byte is 8 bits.