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What is a “Terabyte” Anyway?

Well, since you asked. Remembering that everything in a computer is based on bits of
data (a terabyte is 243 bits), the following table shows the progression from 1 bit to 1
Terabyte.

1 bit

8 bits 1 byte

16 bits 2 bytes

32 bits 4 bytes

64 bits 8 bytes

128 bits 16 bytes

256 bits 32 bytes

512 bits 64 bytes

1,024 bits 128 bytes

2,048 bits 256 bytes

4,096 bits 512 bytes

8,192 bits 1,024 bytes 1 K

16,384 bits 2,048 bytes 2 K

32,768 bits 4,096 bytes 4 K

65,536 bits 8,192 bytes 8 K

131,072 bits 16,384 bytes 16 K

262,144 bits 32,768 bytes 32 K

524,288 bits 65,536 bytes 64 K

1,048,576 bits 131,072 bytes 128 K

2,097,152 bits 262,144 bytes 256 K

4,194,304 bits 524,288 bytes 512 K

8,388,608 bits 1,048,576 bytes 1,024 K 1 MB

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16,777,216 bits 2,097,152 bytes 2,048 K 2 MB

33,554,432 bits 4,194,304 bytes 4,096 K 4 MB

67,108,864 bits 8,388,608 bytes 8,192 K 8 MB

134,217,728 bits 16,777,216 bytes 16,384 K 16 MB

268,435,456 bits 33,554,432 bytes 32,768 K 32 MB

536,870,912 bits 67,108,864 bytes 65,536 K 64 MB

1,073,741,824 bits 134,217,728 bytes 131,072 K 128 MB

2,147,483,648 bits 268,435,456 bytes 262,144 K 256 MB

4,294,967,296 bits 536,870,912 bytes 524,288 K 512 MB

8,589,934,592 bits 1,073,741,824 bytes 1,048,576 K 1,024 MB 1 GB

17,179,869,184 bits 2,147,483,648 bytes 2,097,152 K 2,048 MB 2 GB

34,359,738,368 bits 4,294,967,296 bytes 4,194,304 K 4,096 MB 4 GB

68,719,476,736 bits 8,589,934,592 bytes 8,388,608 K 8,192 MB 8 GB

137,438,953,472 bits 17,179,869,184 bytes 16,777,216 K 16,384 MB 16 GB

274,877,906,944 bits 34,359,738,368 bytes 33,554,432 K 32,768 MB 32 GB

549,755,813,888 bits 68,719,476,736 bytes 67,108,864 K 65,536 MB 64 GB

1,099,511,627,776 bits 137,438,953,472 bytes 134,217,728 K 131,072 MB 128 GB

2,199,023,255,552 bits 274,877,906,944 bytes 268,435,456 K 262,144 MB 256 GB

4,398,046,511,104 bits 549,755,813,888 bytes 536,870,912 K 524,288 MB 512 GB

8,796,093,022,208 bits 1,099,511,627,776 bytes 1,073,741,824 K 1,048,576 MB 1,024 GB 1 TB

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