BITING FACT ABOUT BYTES (B)

Without getting into the esoteric of bits, etc., a byte is essentially a means of measuring data. The similar prefixes utilized to measure hertz are appropriate to bytes, but it gets a little tricky. I'll endeavor to make it trouble-free for you. We calculate in what's known "base 10," and just about everything we interrelate with on an every day basis is counted in this manner. We calculate in units, tens, hundreds, thousands, and so on. We're utilized to it. It's just how we gauge things and it works out in good health.

Your computer, on the other hand, binds in "base 2," or binary. Computers control data essentially in a sequence of "ON" and "OFF;" and just about the whole thing "DIGITAL" these days can be broken down into bits of 1s and 0s. What this results in is a number of math’s that's going to sense somewhat ludicrous. Essentially, here's how your units of gauge work out:

1 kilobyte (KB) = 1,024 bytes (B)
1 megabyte (MB) = 1,024 kilobytes (KB)
1 gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 megabytes (MB)
1 terabyte (TB) = 1,024 gigabytes (GB)

You see how the scaling can dig up to a kind of confusing.