Have you ever wondered what those weird abbreviations were on the specs for your computer data capacity, empty space on your hard drive, space on a CDROM, or space on a floppy disk? Or when you click to download a file and it starts speaking to you in Latin saying, "KB/sec or bytes/sec"? Here is the answer. The abbreviation on your hardware or brochure is describing the capacity of the hardware to store data. The KB/sec or bytes/sec is describing to you the transfer rate of the file. In comparison, the larger the number preceding the abbreviation, the better. Although, the relationship between Byte, KB, MB, and GB are different. 

A kilobyte is equal to 1,024 bytes. (KB) 
A megabyte is equal to 1,048,576 bytes. (MB) 
A gigabyte is equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes. (GB)

Therefore, to arrange them from smallest to largest, they are ordered: 

Byte--KB--MB--GBtext

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