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Kilobyte

• One kilobyte of data is equal to one thousand bytes. ^[1]
• The equivalent of 1,000 (actually 1,024) bytes. Indicates (1) size of the storage area on a disk, such as 32KB = 32,768 bytes, or (2) amount of main memory (RAM) in the computer, such as 640K = room to store 640,000 bytes of instructions. ^[2]
• One thousand bytes of data is 1K of data. ^[3]

See also

• Bit
• Byte
• KB – kilobyte
• MB – megabyte
• GB – gigabyte
• TB – terabyte
• PB – petabyte
• EB – exabyte

1. ^[1] Vinson & Elkins LLP Practice Support, EDD Glossary. ↩
2. ^[2] Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005). ↩
3. ^[3] American Document Management, Glossary of Terms, http://www.amdoc.com/glossary.shtml ↩