Know the Measurement Jargon
June 2nd, 2008
Somebody once told me that a man’s thing is proportional to the size of his hard disk. That’s totally untrue but it is definitely true that size does matter. Sometimes, during some intellectual boastful conversation, one may actually say a quarter of terabyte instead of 250 gigabytes to make it sound more size-monster.
The capacity of early hard disks is quoted as megabytes. A megabyte can store up to 1,048,576 or 220 bytes. Today, hard disks are commonly in gigabytes. Gigabytes is equal to 1,073,741,824 or 230 bytes of computer storage. Byte, on the other hand is equal to eight bits. A bit is a binary digit, taking up the values of either 1 or 0.