How much is 1 byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc.?

Newly created page I thought was pretty interesting. Helps give you a better idea how big each of the major hard disk drive spaces (e.g. MB, GB, EB, ZB, etc.) really are.

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Rated by azkitchen on Sep 16, 10:46pm

My 9 year old asked me the other day how much a gigabyte was, now I can tell him.
Rated by Barnes088 on May 30 2009, 6:58pm

Way to fail Fortis. Taking the time to click the kilobyte link, you'd see that they clearly state the IEC's 1000 byte standard, in addition to the commonly known 1024 byte standard.
Rated by Wobbles on Apr 26 2009, 9:52pm

All I need is two Yottabyte hard drives and 800 trillion floppy disks to back them up on.
Rated by gtkajita on Apr 16 2009, 4:10am

I'd love to say that yottobyte is made up, but it's not
Rated by mzarkoff on Apr 14 2009, 3:41pm

From the page: "How much is 1 byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc.?"
Rated by whoever on Apr 14 2009, 1:05pm

This page actually is misleading and not correct. In SI system the Gigabyte is 1000000000 bytes and amount of 1073741824 bytes is called actually Gibibyte. So all the "MB", "GB", "EB", etc. on the page should read "MiB", "GiB", "EiB" instead... look it up on Wikipedia or iec.org
Reviewed by marcusklaas on Apr 14 2009, 10:27am

you might want to consider checking out the SI. they actually say that the kilo- prefix is 10^3, and not a power of two. a bunch of people using kilobyte incorrectly does not make it correct.

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