Gigabytes, Terabytes, & Petabytes: How Big are These sizes? Must See

WHAT ARE THE DATA STORAGE METRIC TERMS AVAILABLE?

This is a familiar question but for the sake of the newbies, the terms are Exabyte, petabyte, terabyte, gigabyte, megabyte, kilobyte, and byte. Features to note here are the sizes, and common abbreviations. All you need to do to get the right abbreviation is to pick the first letter of the term and add “B” which stands for byte to it, for example, Gigabyte is GB, Terabyte is TB and so on. “Byte” is common to all of these terms because it is the amount of storage space required to accommodate a character of text. You can view it as the “cell” of storage terms, it is quite important.

Well, another term that comes to mind is “bit”. If a byte is a storage space, what then is a bit all about? You can consider it to be smaller than a byte because 8 bits make up 1 byte. Adding more to this simple illustration will probably get you confused, so let’s leave it at that.

WHICH DATA STORAGE METRIC TERM IS THE LARGEST?

It is easy to work this out, all you need to do is determine which is the largest and then work your way down from there. An exabyte is currently the biggest and it followed in a downward progressing manner by petabyte, terabyte, gigabyte, megabyte, kilobyte and then byte. Quite simple isn’t it?

HOW DO I CONVERT SIMPLE DATA STORAGE METRIC TERMS?

Based on how computers work, each storage metric term differs from the next by 1024. This may contradict what you must have heard about this conversions before but it is true and probably the most realistic multiplier that you can use to carry out your calculations.

With that said, 1TB will contain exactly 1024GB, a further breakdown will give 1,048,576MB and so on. This means that you can get the value of 1TB in GB by multiplying it by 1024 and also get the reverse by dividing by 1024 also.