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What is the smallest unit of data in computing that can hold a value of 0 or 1?
What is the smallest unit of data in computing that can hold a value of 0 or 1?
How many bits are in a nibble?
How many bits are in a nibble?
Which of the following units represents a power of 10 rather than a power of 2?
Which of the following units represents a power of 10 rather than a power of 2?
What is the relationship between data storage and data transfer units?
What is the relationship between data storage and data transfer units?
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What is the relationship between kilobits per second (Kbps) and megabits per second (Mbps)?
What is the relationship between kilobits per second (Kbps) and megabits per second (Mbps)?
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What is the relationship between megahertz (MHz) and gigahertz (GHz) in terms of processing speed?
What is the relationship between megahertz (MHz) and gigahertz (GHz) in terms of processing speed?
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Which of the following is not a common unit used to measure data storage capacity?
Which of the following is not a common unit used to measure data storage capacity?
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If a file is 2.5 $GiB$ in size, approximately how many $MB$ would it be?
If a file is 2.5 $GiB$ in size, approximately how many $MB$ would it be?
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Which of the following is not a unit used to measure data transfer rates?
Which of the following is not a unit used to measure data transfer rates?
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If a computer has a processor speed of 3.2 $GHz$, how many cycles per second is that?
If a computer has a processor speed of 3.2 $GHz$, how many cycles per second is that?
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What is the relationship between bits and bytes when discussing data transfer?
What is the relationship between bits and bytes when discussing data transfer?
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What is the relationship between kilobytes (KB) and kibibytes (KiB) in terms of data storage?
What is the relationship between kilobytes (KB) and kibibytes (KiB) in terms of data storage?
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If a computer has a data transfer rate of 100 $Mbps$, how many Kbps is that?
If a computer has a data transfer rate of 100 $Mbps$, how many Kbps is that?
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Which of the following is not a common unit used to measure processing speed?
Which of the following is not a common unit used to measure processing speed?
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What is the relationship between megabits per second (Mbps) and megabytes per second (MBps) in terms of data transfer rates?
What is the relationship between megabits per second (Mbps) and megabytes per second (MBps) in terms of data transfer rates?
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Study Notes
Basic Units of Data
- A bit is the smallest unit of data in computing, holding a value of 0 or 1.
- A byte is equivalent to 8 bits and is another basic unit of data.
- A nibble is half of a byte, consisting of 4 bits, and is often used to represent a single hexadecimal character.
Large Units of Data
- Kilobytes (KB), Megabytes (MB), Gigabytes (GB), Terabytes (TB), and Petabytes (PB) are larger units of data, with each unit being approximately 1000 times larger than the previous one.
- 1 MB = 1000 KB, 1 GB = 1000 MB, 1 TB = 1000 GB, and 1 PB = 1000 TB.
- In digital storage, these units represent powers of 2, rather than powers of 10.
- Kibibytes (KiB), mebibytes (MiB), and gibibytes (GiB) are used to represent powers of 2, with 1 KiB = 1,024 bytes.
Data Transfer Rates
- Data transfer rates measure the amount of data transferred between components in a computer or between computers over a network.
- Kilobits per second (Kbps), megabits per second (Mbps), gigabits per second (Gbps), and terabits per second (Tbps) are units of data transfer rates.
- 1 Kbps = 1000 bits per second, 1 Mbps = 1000 kilobits per second, 1 Gbps = 1000 megabits per second, and 1 Tbps = 1000 gigabits per second.
Data Storage vs Data Transfer
- Bytes are used to measure data storage, with a big B.
- Bits are used to measure data transfer, with a little b.
Processing Speed
- Megahertz (MHz) and gigahertz (GHz) are units of processing speed.
- 1 MHz represents one million cycles per second, and 1 GHz represents one billion cycles per second.
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Test your knowledge about data storage units from the smallest bit to the largest petabyte. Learn about bits, bytes, nibbles, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, and petabytes.
