Computer Studies Made Simple : Data Storage Units

Basic Units of Data Storage are as follows:

Bit:

Computer use binary digits to perform its function.

These binary digits are in the form of 0s and 1s.

A binary Digit is called a bit.

One bit takes one storage location in the memory.

It is the smallest unit for data storage.

Byte:

Byte is a collection of 8 bits.

It is used to store a single character.

The capacity of the memory or the storage is expressed in terms of bytes.

Kilobyte:

A kilobyte consists of 1024 bytes

It is denoted as KB

Megabyte

A megabyte consists of 1024 killobytes.

It is denoted by MB.

Gigabyte:

A gigabyte consists of 1024 megabytes

It is denoted by GB.

Terabyte:

A terbyte consists of 1024 gigabytes

It is denoted by TB