Arrange the following digital storage units in ascending order of capacity:…
2024
Arrange the following digital storage units in ascending order of capacity: Petabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte, and Kilobyte. Choose the correct sequence.
Answer: A. Kilobyte → Gigabyte → Terabyte → Petabyte — ConceptStorage-unit prefixes represent increasing orders of magnitude. Moving from kilo to giga to tera to peta increases capacity at every step; decimal and…
- A.
Kilobyte → Gigabyte → Terabyte → Petabyte
- B.
Terabyte → Gigabyte → Petabyte → Kilobyte
- C.
Petabyte → Terabyte → Gigabyte → Kilobyte
- D.
Petabyte → Gigabyte → Terabyte → Kilobyte
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Correct answer: A
Concept
Storage-unit prefixes represent increasing orders of magnitude. Moving from kilo to giga to tera to peta increases capacity at every step; decimal and binary conventions differ in exact factors but preserve this order.
Application
Identify kilo as the smallest prefix among the four, so Kilobyte comes first.
The next larger prefixes are giga, tera, and peta, in that order.
Combining the steps gives Kilobyte → Gigabyte → Terabyte → Petabyte.
Cross-check
Using decimal definitions, the capacities are 103, 109, 1012, and 1015 bytes respectively. Their exponents increase as 3 < 9 < 12 < 15, confirming the same order.
Result
Kilobyte → Gigabyte → Terabyte → Petabyte