TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A very common task in the IT industry is needing to convert between storage size units - bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, etc.

This pattern continues with large storage units, with a gigabyte equal to either 1,000 or 1,024 megabytes, a terabyte equal to 1,000 or 1,024 gigabytes, and so on.