A brief vocabulary lesson . . .
- A bit is the smallest unit of storage for information, the space a computer needs to store a "0" or a "1".
- A byte is about the size it takes to store a letter of the alphabet.
- A kilobyte is a unit of storage you would need for a HS term paper.
- A popular song would take up about 2 megabytes of storage.
- As of this writing the smallest iPod holds 1 gigabyte and the largest holds
160 gigabytes in text, music and video. - You could store about 200 DVDs on a 1 terabyte hard disk drive.
- Currently eBay has about 2 petabytes of data.
- It would take about 10 exabytes to store all the telephone calls
in the U.S. this year. - In 2010 there will be about 1 zettabyte of data that can be
accessed by a computer. - By the time today's 4th grade students have graduated from college they
will live in a yottabyte world.
Chart source - Wikipedia
