Size Guide. How do you measure up?
Bit :
The smallest unit of information used in IT.
Nybble :
Four Bits, or 'half a byte!'
Byte :
Eight bits
Kilobit :
1,000 Bits
Kilobyte (kb) :
1,024 bytes, although usually rounded to 1000 bytes.
Megabyte (MB) :
1,000 kilobytes, or 1,000,000 bytes.
Gigabyte (GB) :
1,000 megabytes. Currently the largest measurement in common use.
...And incase you were wondering...
Terabyte :
1,000 gigabytes
Petabyte :
1,000 terabytes or one million gigabytes, or the equivalent of 500 million Floppy Disks.
Exabyte :
1,000 petabytes, or one billion gigabytes. 5 exabytes is supposed to be equal to all of the words ever spoken by mankind.
Zettabyte :
1,000 exabytes.
Yottabyte :
1,000 zettabytes.
Brontobyte :
1,000 yottabytes.... Or put another way, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes!