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Understanding Data Storage Capacities

The document discusses the increasing need for storage due to digital content such as photos, emails, and documents. It explains data storage units, including bits, bytes, and various prefixes like KiB, MiB, and GiB. Additionally, it provides typical file sizes for common file types like Word documents, digital photos, audio, and video files.

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Understanding Data Storage Capacities

The document discusses the increasing need for storage due to digital content such as photos, emails, and documents. It explains data storage units, including bits, bytes, and various prefixes like KiB, MiB, and GiB. Additionally, it provides typical file sizes for common file types like Word documents, digital photos, audio, and video files.

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STORAGE CAPACITY

The need for more storage


More storage may be needed to store
• Digital photos and videos taken on smartphone
• Family emails saved on tablet saved on a computer
• Documents created as part of their job, saved on a
computer
• Music and video files that are downloaded
Units of data storage
To prevent describing documents as having a file size of in millions of
bytes additional base 2 and base 10 are used to describe the number of
bytes required.
Bit(b) –The smallest unit representing 1 or 0
Byte(B)- consists of 8 bits
1 Kibibyte(KiB)-1024 bytes
1 Mebibytes(MiB)-1024 kibibytes
1 Gibibytes(GiB)-1024 mebibytes

1 Kilobyte(KB)-100 bytes
1 Megabyte(MB)-1000 kilobytes
1Gigabyte(GB)-1000 megabytes
Typical fie sizes
Commonly used file types and related file sizes
File type Size in bits Size in Size in Size in Size in
bytes Kibibytes mebibytes gibibytes
(KiB) (MiB) (GiB)
Word 41943040 5242880 5120 5 0.005
processed
document
Digital 25165824 3145728 3072 3 0.003
photo
Audio file 33554432 4194304 4096 4 0.004
Video file 257698037 322122547 3145728 3072 3
76 2
Vector 4096000 512000 500 0.48 0.0005
graphic

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