BINARY POWERS OF 10

 

I heard an interesting phrase on television "petabyte" that caught my attention so I searched for the term.

I found this table of Binary Powers of 10 that explains the evolution of our memory requirements. 

We start off with the basic unit of memory as 1 bit that converts to 0.125 bytes.

1 byte = 1 character

1 kilobyte = 1,024 bytes

1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes  (million)

1 gigabyte = 1,073,741,824 bytes  (billion)

1 terabyte = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 1,024 gigabytes

1 petabyte = 1 quadrillion bytes or 1,000 terabytes

1 exabyte = 1,000 petabytes  (5 exabytes stores all words ever spoken by humans)

1 zettabyte = 1,000 exabytes

1 yottabyte = 1,000 zettabytes

1 xonabyte = 1,000 xonabytes

1 wekabyte = 1,000 xonabytes

1 vundabyte = 1,000 wekabytes