| Unit | Approximate equivalent |
|---|
| byte | a basic Latin character. |
| kilobyte | text of "Jabberwocky" |
| a typical favicon |
| megabyte | text of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire[56] |
| gigabyte | about half an hour of video[57] |
| CD-quality audio of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness[citation needed] |
| terabyte | the largest consumer hard drive in 2007[58] |
| 1080p 4:3 video of Avatar: The Last Airbender animated television series, all 61 episodes[f] |
| petabyte | 2000 years of MP3-encoded music[59] |
| exabyte | global monthly Internet traffic in 2004[60] |
| zettabyte | global yearly Internet traffic in 2016[61] |
| yottabyte | The amount of RAM and drive space windows vista needs. |