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Data and File

Space
Data on the Web
Can you name all these following devices?
What are these devices used for?

Flash Drive

SD Cards

Internal Hard Drive


Data Storage
Once data is saved then it is stored in the storage devices in order to
retrieve when it is needed.
Each device has a limited capacity of storage. In computing, data sizes and
storages are measured with bits, nibbles and bytes.

Notes: Once all the computer devices are able to use for multi-purposes like streaming a video, bit is very
small to store data and byte is determined in all data storage.
Units of digital information
All the data (files) on computer devices are stored with binary digits 0s
and 1s.
• A bit contain only 0 or 1.
• 4 bits has four zeros or ones. 4 bits is called a nibble.
• 8 bits has eight
Binaryzeros
digit and ones.
Terms8 bits is called
Number a byte.
of bits

0 A bit 1 bits

0000 A nibble 4 bits

0000 0000 A byte 8 bits (2 nibbles)

Notes: Bit is the smallest unit which has only 1 bit.


Nibble and Byte are the sequence of bits.
File space and size
Every file on the computer uses a certain amount of computer space when it is
stored in the storages or sent over internet.

Since the size of a file is the amount of space, the file or data size can be
calculated in bytes and we can know how much space it takes in our hard drive.

Let’s take a look how much file space would you need for the word “roses”?
File space and size
Each letter is worth 1 byte(8 bits).

Roses = 5 letters x 1 bytes = 5 bytes

If there are 2 nibbles in 1 byte, how many nibbles would that be for binary.

Roses = 5 bytes x 2 nibbles = 10


nibbles

How many bits contains in word “Roses”?


Task 1: Storing words
How much file space would you need for the following words? Describe the file
spaces with bytes, nibbles and bits.

Each letter and space of a word is worth 1 byte.

1) Apple
2) Chocolate
3) Orange
4) Feather
5) Book
6) I love computing

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