Ram Explained
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*Megabyte - MB - 2<sup>20</sup> - 1,048,576 bytes - 1024KB | *Megabyte - MB - 2<sup>20</sup> - 1,048,576 bytes - 1024KB | ||
*Gigabyte - GB - 2<sup>30</sup> (1024<sup>3</sup>) - approximately 1.07 billion bytes - 1024MB | *Gigabyte - GB - 2<sup>30</sup> (1024<sup>3</sup>) - approximately 1.07 billion bytes - 1024MB | ||
| - | *Terabyte - TB - 2<sup>40</sup> - | + | *Terabyte - TB - 2<sup>40</sup> - 1,048,576MB - 1024GB |
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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
