Geek definitions

Hey this is pretty handy, grabbed from the flotsam and jetsam of the data I see fly by … **Megabyte**   

1,024 kilobytes. The length of a short novel or about the storage available on an average floppy disk.

Gigabyte

1,024 megabytes. Roughly 100 minutes of CD-quality stereo sound. Terabyte

1,024 gigabytes. Half of the content in an academic research library.

Petabyte

1,024 terabytes. Half of the content in all U.S. academic research libraries. Exabyte

1,024 petabytes. Half of all the information generated in 1999.