Ram Explained

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Computer ram is identified by Binary numbers, which means that the number of addressable locations naturally becomes a power of 2.

For example 1KB = 210 = 1024 bytes.

The different units of computer ram (also used for computer storage)

  • bit - A single binary digit, taking a value of either 0 or 1
  • byte - 23 - The 8-bit byte is the standard of modern systems. Therefore in general terms there are 8 bits in a byte.
  • Kilobyte - KB - 210 - 1024 bytes
  • Megabyte - MB - 220 - 1,048,576 bytes - 1024KB
  • Gigabyte - GB - 230 (10243) - approximately 1.07 billion bytes - 1024MB
  • Terabyte - TB - 240 - 1,048,576MB - 1024GB
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