Memory’s crucial in computers. The more you have, the faster your system works. And in this day and age when MP3s and WMVs inundate the cyberspace, finding more and more storage is a difficult task as countless bits get bitten up by everything we download and install. And it’s hard to remember one important fact about computers: you need excess memory in order for it to run! So don’t use up all the memory, please.
So then what do you do when you’ve got loads of downloaded music and videos? Store them all on CDs and DVDs? Watch the space in your house go bye-bye. Or if you’re an academic with your e-books (another tremendous, enterprising industry on the rise that highlights the importance of memory) and work documents loading up your My Documents folder on the C drive, over time the space gets kind of limited!
So, again, what do you do?
It’s simple. Everyone’s heard of the ‘byte.’ It’s a single source of memory, the founding piece of memory a computer uses. A ‘megabyte’ is actually about 1 million bytes altogether. Pretty huge. Again, though, in the growing electronic community, 1 megabyte hardly means anything. Then you have the ‘gigabyte’, which stands for 1,000 ‘megabytes’. And now we’re getting somewhere. You might’ve heard the term ‘gig’ and notice that many storage devices carry 2 ‘gigs’ of memory. Now you know what it stands for.
However, you haven’t learn everything. When memory still gets short, consult the Superbytes. You’d usually find them in what are called ‘external hard drives, storage that can be hooked directly to your basic hard drive. They’re as follows: the terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, and yottabyte. If you thought gigs carried a hefty amount of memory, think again. These leviathans could power several dozen computers all by themselves!
So the next time memory runs short. Consider. These. Superbytes. Or. Else. You’ll. Stop. Running….