Across the system, you may find terms such as B, GB, MB or KB. What does it mean?
Here is the meaning of these acronym units:
- ‘B‘ stands for ‘Bytes’. It is basically one character
- ‘KB‘ stands for ‘Kilo Bytes’. In other words, 1,000 bytes (or characters)
- ‘MB‘ stands for ‘Mega bytes’. In other words, 1,000,000 (1 million) bytes (or characters)
- ‘GB‘ stands for ‘Giga Bytes’. In other words, 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) bytes (or characters)
- Even if we don’t use it, you could also find ‘TB‘ that stands for ‘Tera Bytes’, or 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (1 trillion)
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