Jon Moody answered There's more than just one unit, but I'll hit the basic and most common.Bit = a single 1 or 0Byte = 8 bits, typically a single letter, number or characterKilobyte = 1024 bytesMegabyte = 1024 kilobytesGigabyte = 1024 MegabytesTerrabyte = 1024 Gigabytes (8,796,093,022,208 bits)