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Megabyte: One million bytes (actually 1,048,576): one thousand kilobytes.

Megabyte (MB): About a million bytes of space. Actually it's 2 raised to the 20th power or 1,048,576 bytes of space.

Removable Media: All of our digital cameras use some kind of reusable removable memory, such as Memory Sticks, compactflash cards, and Secure Digital cards. These memory cards offer varying amounts of storag . . . View Full Definition

Transfer Rate: The speed at which a disk drive can transfer information between its platters and your CPU. The transfer rate is typically measured in megabytes per second, megabits per second, or megahertz.

Bytes: A byte is a unit of information transferred over a network (or stored on a hard drive or in memory). Every web page, image, or other type of file is composed of some number of bytes. Large f . . . View Full Definition

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI): It is pronounced 'scuzzy,' and is a parallel interface standard used by Apple Macintosh computers, PCs, and many UNIX systems for the purpose of attaching peripheral devices to computer syst . . . View Full Definition

Conventional Memory: In a DOS environment, this would refer to a memory portion that is made available to DOS programs. In a typical DOS system, there is 1MB (megabyte) of address space available. Conventional M . . . View Full Definition

Expanded Memory: Anther term for Expanded Memory is EMS (Expanded Memory Specification). In a DOS based system there is 1 MB (megabyte) of address space available for main memory. 384K is for high-memory and . . . View Full Definition

Gigabyte (GB): 2 to the 30th power (1,073,741,824) bytes. One gigabyte is equal to 1,024 megabytes.

Memory: The word most commonly used to refer to a system's ability to retain specific information, particularly; time, stations,.and other preference settings that are electronically stored and governed.