Sizes And Types Of Storage Flashcards
1
Q
How many sizes of storage are there?
A
7 in 2017
2
Q
What are the different sizes of storage?
A
Bit, nibble, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte.
3
Q
What is a bit?
A
It is a unit of storage.
4
Q
What is a nibble?
A
It is 1/2 a byte or 4 bits
5
Q
what is a byte.
A
it is 8 bits and is the smallest unit of storage used as it can store 1 letter
6
Q
What is a kilobyte?
A
It is 1024 bytes so can hold half a page of data.
7
Q
What is a megabyte?
A
A megabyte is 1024 kilobytes and is the smallest storage that most games use.
8
Q
What is a gigabyte?
A
a gigabyte is 1025 megabytes and a a small hard drive is 160 Gb
9
Q
What is a terabyte?
A
3.6 million KB or 1024 GB
