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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 unit of measurement would u generally use for a hard disk drive?

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it is measured in gigabytes . Stop asking such simple questions and Google it .

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Most hard drives are measured in gigabytes, though larger ones are often measured in terabytes.

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Metres.

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