Just like we measure day-to-day things like time in seconds, mass in kilograms, and height in meters; computer memory and disc space are measured based on bytes. You would have probably come across ...

A very common task in the IT industry is needing to convert between storage size units - bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, etc. To make things even more complicated, the POSIX ...

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If you've been shopping for a new laptop or desktop computer recently, you've probably noticed that hard drives are getting larger. When small businesses first started using computers, drives were ...

You might have seen the terms GiB, MiB and KiB around HEXUS in recent months and elsewhere on the Internet, when talking about memory or data sizes. If you've hung around computing for any length of ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...