Main units of information and equivalences (ko, MB, GB…)

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1. INTRODUCTION

Below a ladder with main units of information and their equivalences ( ko , MB , GB ...).

I hope you will find it interesting.

2. MAIN UNITS OF INFORMATION (THE DATA SCALE)

UNITED	EQUIVALENCE
Bit ( b )	Basic information unit
Byte ( B )	8b
kilobyte ( Ko )	1000B
Megabyte ( Mo )	1000 kb
Gigabyte ( Go )	1000 MB
Terabyte ( That's it )	Go 1000
Petabyte ( PB )	1000 To
Exabyte ( EB )	1000 in
zettabytes ( ZB )	1000 EB
yottabyte ( YB )	1000 ex.

3. REAL EXAMPLES (Equivalence with common units of information)

To give you a more tangible idea of the value of each unit of information , here are some examples day by day. You can oppose them yourself on your computer (with notepad and word for small data) and on your mobile (books, photos, applications, etc.). I leave the remaining big data presented with their respective reference.

1 B : a letter.
1-10 B : a word.
50 B : a sentence.
25 kb : An article like the one you are reading (350 words + image and formatting).
100-1000 kB – Photograph of a modern mobile.
1-4 MB : a book in .pdf or .epub format.
3-5 MB : a song in mp3.
10 MB – One minute compressed mobile video.
100 MB – One-minute uncompressed moving video in high resolution.
3-100 MB – A mobile application. (*) The average between Android (lighter) and Apple (heavier) is 38 Mon
Go 2,5 : saberespractico.com (1750 articles with images, videos and other formats).
Go 30 – The text of Wikipedia in English only (6 million articles; 4 billion words).
250 To – All Wikimedia Commons files currently.
800 in : the data that is generated every minute in the world.
40-50 BZs : All world digital data currently.