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Data Storage Units

Data storage units are a series of units that help us to calculate the storage capacity of a certain amount of information.

There are 6 types of denominations created to manage the amount of information in a given space, these 6 types are the most used:

• Bit

• Byte

• Kilobyte

• Megabyte

• Gigabyte

• Terabyte

Bit:

A bit is the minimum unit of data used for information storage. The bit is represented as 1 or 0, it is known in the computer world as binary language, since only two characters can be used for communication.

Byte (B):

The byte is a larger unit of measurement, this storage unit consists of 8 bits to form 1 byte.

1 B = 8 bits.

Kilobyte (KB):

1 Kilobyte is a larger unit of measurement than 1 Byte, if we want to size 1 KB in Bytes it would have an equivalence of 1024 Bytes.

1 KB = 1024 B

Megabyte (MB):

1 MB is made up of a larger amount of KB, hence it is a larger unit for data storage.

1 MB = 1024 KB.

Gigabyte (GB):

The GB is an even larger measurement for information storage, if we make a conversion to a smaller unit it would be as follows:

1 GB = 1024 MB.

Normally, this type of information measurement unit is widely used in devices such as USB, SD and microSD memories.

Terabyte (TB):

The TB is one of the most commonly used measurements for larger amounts of data, typically used in devices such as HDD hard drives or SSD solid state drives.

1 TB = 1024 GB.

The TB is not the last measure of storage with higher capacity density, with the passage of time and the large volumes of information being processed is necessary that there are measures in higher storage, an example is the Petabyte, has an equivalence to:

1 Petabyte = 1024 TB.

What happens with this type of units is that as such there is no equipment that supports this amount of storage, this type of concepts are more used in cloud computing, where higher volumes of information are handled.

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