CompTIA Tech+ CertMike: Prepare. Practice. Pass the Test! Get Certified!, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 3Units of Measure: Objective 1.3: Compare and contrast common units of measure

Technologists throw around a lot of metrics and, as an IT professional, it’s crucial that you understand the common measures used for storage, network throughput, and processing speed. You’ll need to know how to compare these metrics and determine the largest, smallest, fastest, and slowest values.

In this chapter, you’ll learn everything you need to know about Tech+ objective 1.3, including the following topics:

• Storage unit
• Throughput unit
• Processing speed

MEASURING DATA STORAGE

As you learned in Chapter 2, “Notational Systems,” computers work with binary data, meaning data that is stored as simply 0s and 1s. Computers can easily use this binary ...