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Generally speaking, your computer usually stores one character as one byte (including spaces, apostrophies, etc). So, if you hand-write 50 characters per line on a 25-line sheet of paper, you will write about 1250 bytes worth of information. Broken down, that's about 1k worth of data.
Using the above assumption that 1kB = 1 sheet of paper, a MB is thus 2 reams (1000 sheets) of paper. As ream is about 2 inches thick, a MB thus is about a 2-inch high pile of US letter-size paper, if we're being compact and writing on both sides.
Taking that a bit further, a standard 4-drawer filing cabinet with 2-foot deep drawers can hold about 48 reams of paper, thus 1GB takes up about 21 filing cabinets. A standard 10 x 10 foot room can hold (with walking aisles) about 3 rows of 5 filing cabinets (twice that if double stacked), so a fully-stacked 10 x 10 room holds 30 filing cabinets. So, 1TB requires around 700 such rooms.
The former World Trade Center Towers (the largest private office buildings in terms of floor space) consisted of over 2 million square feet of usable floor space each. So, each tower would have been able to hold about 28.5TB of data on double-sided paper.
The world's largest electronic data storage systems are currently rapidly approaching the exabyte size (a GB of GB). In paper terms, this would require a office building built in a cube, almost 1.75 miles on each side, filled with those 10 x 10 rooms of filing cabinets. Or, if all the reams of paper were laid out on the ground side-by-side, they would cover over 23,000 square miles, about half the state of Pennsylvania. If laid out end-to end (long end to long end), those reams would circle the world at the equator almost 7,000 times. If stacked on top of each other, a pile of paper reams holding 1EB of data would be over 31 million miles tall, or about one-third of the way from the Earth to the Sun - or, about three light-minute in length.
In terms of weight, 1 ream of US Letter paper rated as
"20lbs" actually weighs 5 lbs. So, 1 EB worth of paper reams would weigh 2.5 Billion tons. Or, roughly the weight of the entire U.S. Navy's combat ships.
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How many millabites are in a gegabite?
No such thing. There are 1,024 Megabytes in a Gigabyte Note that you must use byte, there are 4 bits in a byte, 1024 bytes in a kilobyte, 1024 KB in 1 MB, 1024 MB in 1 GB, 1024 GB in one TB, etc...
How many bits are in flabbergasted?
A "flabbergasted" is not a measurement of computer memory. 8 bits are in a byte, 1000 bytes are in a kilobyte, 1000 kilobytes are in a megabyte, Etc.
Are GB bigger than MB?
One byte is 8 bits. 1 kilobyte(kb) is 1024 bytes. Each increment in size is 1024 of the previous. smallest at the top byte kilobyte (1024b) megabyte (1024kb) gigabyte (1024mb) terabyte (1024gb) etc. in short yes GB is bigger than MB
How many bytes calculate to 1 kilobyte?
Bytes are smaller than Kilobytes. One Byte is equal too 1,000 kilobytes. After this comes megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, etc.
WHAT IS THE smallest storage unit?
If you're talking about computers, it's a bit. Bit -> byte -> kilobyte -> megabyte, etc. If you're talking about self storage units, it's a 5' x 5' locker.
When do you show MB instead of kb?
Bytes for a computer come in increments of 1024. So 1024 bytes= 1kb(kilobyte), so whenever you go past 1024, you would want to switch to the next "byte". IE: 1024 bytes = 1 Kilobyte, 1024 kilobytes = 1 Megabyte 1024 megabytes = 1 Gigabyte 1024 gigabytes = 1 Terabyte etc, etc.
Data on a computer is measured in bits Which answer correctly shows measurements from the smallest to the largest?
Bits are the smallest unit of measurement of computer data. 8 bits (b) = 1 byte(B). 1024 bytes(B) = 1 kilobyte (kB). 1024 kB = 1 megabyte (MB) etc..
What is the function of byte?
A byte is the common term for a single character in a computer. It's comprised of 8 bits (0 or 1), which in binary (the base system of any computer) can be any number from 0 to 255. The computer then interprets the number as it's associated character.
What are bites on a computer?
Bytes are what computers use for memory. They store digital information that the computer uses.Example: An average song is about 6 megabytes or roughly 6000000 bytes
What are the unit of measurements of storage devices?
The units of computer storage are :Bits, nibbles, Bytes, Kilobytes(KB), Megabytes(MB), Gigabytes(GB), Terabytes(TB), Petabytes(PB), Exabytes(EB), Zettabytes(ZB), Yottabytes(YB)....etc
What is 143MB out of 1.07 GB?
1 GB is 1024 MB. So 1024/143 = 7.16. And 0.07 GB is about 700 MB. So 1730/143 = 12.1. This may help you in the future: 8 bits in 1 byte One letter = 1byte 1024 bytes in 1 KB 1024 KB = 1 MB 1024 MB = 1 GB 1024 GB = 1 TB This is then followed by petabytes etc.
Is 170 Me ga Bytes a lot?
It depends, 170 Megabytes in terms of hard drive space these days is very little, with most HD's reaching up to 1 Terabyte. The scale of Bytes goes as follows: 1 Byte is 8 Bits 1 Kilobyte is 1000 Bytes 1 Megabyte is 1000 Kilobytes 1 Gigabyte is 1000 Megabytes 1 Terabyte is 1000 Gigabytes etc. So in general terms, no, 170 Megabytes is not a lot, unless you are talking about audio files and the like.
