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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

Footnotes

1. ^  Vinson & Elkins LLP Practice Support, EDD Glossary.
2. ^  Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005).
3. ^  Kroll Ontrack, Glossary of Terms, http://www.krollontrack.com/glossaryterms.