INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

COMPUTER SYSTEMS
SERVICING NC II

DATA UNITS
Quarter 2, Lesson 3
Objectives:
At the end of this module, learners will be
able to;

1. identify the different data units;

2. understand the use of data units;
3. appreciate the importance of learning data
units.
 DIGITAL REPRESENTATION
Information is represented and
stored in a digital binary format.

Bit - is an abbreviation of binary digit

and represents the smallest piece of
data.
DIGITAL REPRESENTATION
A bit can have only two possible
values, a one digit (1) or a zero digit
(0).

A bit can be used to represent the

state of something that has two
states.
Computers use binary codes to represent and interpret
letters, numbers and special characters with bits. A
commonly used code is the American Standard Code
for Information Interchange (ASCII).
With ASCII, each character is represented by a string
of bits.
For example:
Capital letter: A = 01000001
Number: 9 = 00001001
Special character: # = 00100011
CONVERT DECIMAL NUMBERS TO BINARY
NUMBERS
Example: 25
QUOTIENT REMAINDER
25/2 12 1
12/2 6 0
6/2 3 0
3/2 1 1
1/2 0 1

25=00011001
Each group of eight bits, such as the representations
of letters and numbers, is known as a byte.

Codes can be used to represent almost any type of

information digitally: computer data, graphics, photos,
voice, video , and music.
DATA UNITS
● Computers store information in the form of "1"
and "0"s in different types of storages such as
memory, hard disk, usb drives etc. The most
common digital data storage unit is byte which
is 8 bits.
Computer data is expressed as bytes, kilobytes,
megabytes as it is in the metric system, When
talking about Computer Storage, a 1 kilobyte is
1000 bytes, but when talking about Computer
Memory, 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes.
 CALCULATING DATA STORAGE

Byte – is the most basic unit of digital storage.

- is 8 bits and is the smallest unit of measure
(UOM) used to represent data storage capacity.
 Types of Data Storage Unit
bit (b) -
byte (B) - 8 bits
kilobyte (KB) - 1024 B
megabyte (MB) - 1024 KB
gigabyte (GB - 1024 MB
Terabyte (TB) - 1024 GB
 One kilobyte is a little more than one
thousand bytes, specifically 1,024. A
megabyte represents more than a million
bytes or 1,048,576. A gigabyte is
1,073,741,824 bytes. A terabyte is
1,099,511,627,776.
 Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and
terabytes are typically used to measure the
size or storage capacity of a device.
 Examples of components and devices that
use byte storage include: random access
memory (RAM), hard disk drive space, CDs,
DVDs, and MP3 players.
 Once we know the size of a file or folder, it is
possible to determine the number of bytes
being used. For example:

A file is 20 KB in size
1 KB = 1,024 Bytes

20 * 1,024 = 20,480 bytes in a 20 KB file

Answer this:
1. Convert
6GB = ___ MB
4,156 KB = ___ MB
2. How many 60 KB jpg files can be stored on
a 2 MB folder in your hard drive?
 QUIZ # 3
Convert
1. 18GB = ___ MB
2. 890,000 KB = ___ MB
3. 5TB = ___GB
4. 4GB= ___KB
5. 456,234 MB = ___ GB
 QUIZ # 3
6. 76 GB = ____ MB
7. 23,434 MB = ___ GB
8. 64 GB = ___ TB
9. 10 GB = ___KB
10. 3 TB = ___ MB