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kB to bit
1 kilobyte (kB, 1000 B) = 8,000 bit. Multiply by 8,000. One kilobyte (kB, 1000 B) is 8,000 bit.
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kB to bit table
| kilobyte (kB, 1000 B) | bit | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| 1 kB | 8,000 | bit |
| 2 kB | 16,000 | bit |
| 3 kB | 24,000 | bit |
| 5 kB | 40,000 | bit |
| 10 kB | 80,000 | bit |
| 20 kB | 160,000 | bit |
| 25 kB | 200,000 | bit |
| 50 kB | 400,000 | bit |
| 100 kB | 800,000 | bit |
| 500 kB | 4,000,000 | bit |
| 1,000 kB | 8,000,000 | bit |
this is why your drive looks smaller
Drive makers sell decimal terabytes (10¹²). Windows reports binary tebibytes (2⁴⁰) and labels them "TB". A 1 TB drive is 0.909 TiB — nothing is missing, the two units just share a name.