THE PC UNITS OF DATA MEASURMENT CHART

The computer industry uses the prefixes of Greek terminology and abbreviations as units of measurement to understand the different sizes of data.

Terminology Abbreviations Meaning
Bit b one digit 1or 0
Nibble nb four bits
Byte B eight bits or two nibbles
Kilobyte KB 1,024 Bytes 2¹⁰ Bytes
Megabyte MB 1,024 Kilobytes 2¹⁰⁰ Bytes
Gigabyte GB 1,024 Megabytes 2¹⁰⁰⁰ Bytes
Terabyte TB 1,024 Gigabytes 2¹⁰⁰⁰⁰ Bytes

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Terminology	Abbreviations	Meaning
Bit	b	one digit 1or 0
Nibble	nb	four bits
Byte	B	eight bits or two nibbles
Kilobyte	KB	1,024 Bytes 2¹⁰ Bytes
Megabyte	MB	1,024 Kilobytes 2¹⁰⁰ Bytes
Gigabyte	GB	1,024 Megabytes 2¹⁰⁰⁰ Bytes
Terabyte	TB	1,024 Gigabytes 2¹⁰⁰⁰⁰ Bytes