Thursday, February 25, 2016

File sizes

Thursday, February 25, 2016 Posted by Sandeep Kumar Jha

  • A file size is the measure of space a file takes on a storage medium such as a computer hard drive.
  • File sizes can be measured in
    • Bytes (B)
    • Kilobytes (KB)
    • Megabytes (MB)
    • Gigabytes (GB)
    • Terabytes (TB)
  • In the picture below of files listed in Windows Explorer, the size column has been sorted to show the largest file first.
  • As can be seen, the first file "family-safety.jpg" has a file size of 47 KB.
  • The smallest file in this picture has a file size of 32 KB.