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KiloByte


The kilobyte is the measurement unit for  digital information, which internationally  is symbolized as KB .
kilobyte

According to  International System of Units (SI) , Kilo- is the prefix means 1000 so it is commonly considered as 1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes, but in Information technology’s areas in reference to digital memory capacity, 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes . It was once common to find Hard disks, Magnetic storage media, Processor cache size, SD memory chip, an iPhone memory chip capacity and RAM capacities measured in terms of kilobytes, but the larger megabyte has now become a more prominent capacity.
Kilobytes are often used to measure the small files size.  For example, thumbnail images use only 5 to 10 KB of space. A larger JPEG image of 900x600 pixel can take up to 250 KB of space. Text files often are less than 1KB. While some files contain less than 4 KB data, as in modern file systems such as NTFS (Windows) and HFS+ (Mac) have a cluster size of 4 KB. Most documents saved on computer might be between 1 and 1,024KB. Anything larger than 1,024KB is measured in megabytes (MB) .



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