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How to size the Data in Big Data?

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Article 2 — How to size the Data

If you have a smartphone or a computer, you should be aware of the storage capacity.

On average, a smartphone has 16, 32, or 64GB of storage. A computer has 4, 8 or 16 GB of RAM and 250, 500 GB, or 1TB of hard disk.

One smartphone with 64GB of space, store 64 x 1,073,741,824 Bytes or characters.

Data measures are scaled adopting the binary system (base 2) used on computers as the numeric system. For example, 2ˆ10 (two raised to power 10) equals 1,024 Bytes.

Let’s know these measures to gain a sense of the data volume generated in Big Data.

Data Measurement Units:

1 Byte = 8 bits ou 1 Character

1 KiloByte (KB) = 1024 Bytes

1 MegaByte (MB) = 1024 KB

1 GigaByte (GB) = 1024 MB

1 TeraByte (TB) = 1024 GB

1 PetaByte (PB) = 1024 TB