Kilobyte

A KB is the unit symbol for the 'Kilobyte'. A Kilobyte is made up of multiple-unit bytes, which stores the digital information and denotes data size. A byte is a size, which is made up of 8 bits. A bit is a single unit of data. It can be '0' or '1'. And the short forms of kilobyte are K, K-byte, and kByte.

In the word kilobyte, kilo denotes the 1000 or third power of 10, which means 10³. In computer science and IT, the kilobyte refers to as 1024 or 2¹⁰ bytes.

A kilobyte is that unit, which is larger than a byte (B) and smaller than the unit megabyte (MB). Kilobyte is used for measuring the size of small files. An electronic mail (e-mail) without the images contains 2 kilobytes.

Other data units to Kilobyte conversion

Following list shows the values of kilobytes in other data units:

S.No.	Other Units	Values in Kilobytes
1.	1 Bit equals to	0.000125 Kilobytes
2.	1 Kilobit equals to	0.125 Kilobytes
3.	1 Kibibit equals to	0.128 Kilobytes
4.	1 Megabit equals to	125 Kilobytes
5.	1 Mebibit equals to	131.072 Kilobytes
6.	1 Gigabit equals to	125000 Kilobytes
7.	1 Gibibit equals to	134218 Kilobytes
8.	1 Terabit equals to	1.25e+8 Kilobytes
9.	1 Tebibit equals to	1.374e+8 Kilobytes
10.	1 Petabit equals to	1.25e+11 Kilobytes
11.	1 Pebibit equals to	1.407e+11 Kilobytes
12.	1 exabit equals to	1.25e14 Kilobytes
13.	1 Exbibit equals to	1.41e+14 kilobytes
14.	1 Yobibits equals to	1.511e+20 Kilobytes
15.	1 Nibble equals to	0.0005 Kilobytes
16.	1 Byte equals to	0.001 Kilobytes
17.	1 Kilobyte equals to	1 Kilobytes
18.	1 Kibibyte equals to	1.024 Kilobytes
19.	1 Megabyte equals to	1000 Kilobytes
20.	1 Mebibytes equals to	1.048.58 Kilobytes
21.	1 Gigabytes equals to	1e+6 Kilobytes
22.	1 Gibibytes equals to	1.074e+6 Kilobytes
23.	1 Terabytes equals to	1e+9 Kilobytes
24.	1 Tebibytes equals to	1.1e+9 Kilobytes
25.	1 Petabytes equals to	1.0e+12 Kilobytes
26.	1 Pebibytes equals to	1.126e+12 Kilobytes
27.	1 exabytes equals to	1.0e+15 Kilobytes
28.	1 Exbibytes equals to	1.1529e+15 Kilobytes
29.	1 Zettabytes equals to	1.0e+18 Kilobytes
30.	1 Yottabytes equals to	1.0e+21 Kilobytes
31.	1 Yobibytes equals to	1.209e+21 Kilobytes

Conversion of 1 Kilobyte into some common data-storage units

Following list shows the conversion of 1 kilobyte into other common data storage units:

S.No.	1 kilobyte	Common data storage units
1.	1 KB equals to	8000 bits (bit)
2.	1 KB equals to	8 kilobits (kbit)
3.	1 KB equals to	0.008 megabits (Mbit)
4.	1 KB equals to	8.0E-6 gigabits (Gbit)
5.	1 KB equals to	8.0E-9 terabits (Tbit)
6.	1 KB equals to	1000 bytes (B)
7.	1 KB equals to	1 kilobytes (KB)
8.	1 KB equals to	0.001 megabytes (MB)
9.	1 KB equals to	1.0E-6 gigabytes (GB)
10.	1 KB equals to	1.0E-9 terabytes (TB)