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The capacity of portable storage media ranges from the megabyte to terabyte level as of July 2014. Modern 'thumb' drives are in the gigabyte range while newer flash technologies have introduced terabyte level portability.

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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 13y ago

Its the capacity measured in BYTES,for example you can find a device written 8MB,this means it can hold ((8million (8BIT words)).SINCE a BYTE is( 8bit long) and Mega BYTE(MB) =1 million bytes.

bit means binary digits.

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∙ 6y ago

Well, different storage mediums can hold different quantities of bytes. The average hard drive, as of 2009, can hold about 500 billion bytes. A typical flash drive can hold 4 billion bytes. A CD can hold 700 million bytes. There is no set amount.

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∙ 15y ago

There are many storage media with vastly different capacities.

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∙ 14y ago

By todays standards everything concerning memory (whether hard drive or RAM) is measured in Gigabytes. (I remember back in the 80's we were using kilobytes!! - WOW !)

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∙ 13y ago

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∙ 12y ago

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∙ 3y ago

dimensionality

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