Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes…. What-a-bytes?

What’s the difference between a Kilobyte and a Gigabyte, and which one is bigger?

One of the things I see regularly is people struggling to work out what computer terms for memory size actually mean and how to tell what’s bigger and what’s smaller.

There are some simple rules to remember to make it easier to work out what’s what, but first, here’s a quick overview of how computer memory works.

Every piece of information you save on your computer takes some physical space to store. Computers oper...