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How the size of hard disk measured?

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Hard drive space is measured in bytes. Other units are simply built on the term byte, such as kilobyte (1000 bytes), megabyte (1000 kilobytes or 1 million bytes), gigabyte (1000 megabytes or 1 thousand million bytes) and terabyte (1000 gigabytes or 1 million million bytes).

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What are hard disks measured in?
mega-bytes(MB),kilo-bite(KB) or gigabites(GB)
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