Here is a list of some of the commonly used units in the metric and their corresponding IEC binary prefixes:
Name Size Name Size
kilobyte (kB) 10 3 kibibyte (KiB) 2 10
megabyte (MB) 10 6 mebibyte(MiB) 2 20
gigabyte (GB) 10 9 gibibyte (GiB) 2 30
terabyte (TB) 10 12 tebibyte (TiB) 2 40
petabyte (PB) 10 15 pebibyte (PiB) 2 50
exabyte (EB) 10 18 exbibyte (EiB) 2 60
zettabyte (ZB) 10 21 zebibyte (ZiB) 2 70
yottabyte (YB) 10 24 yobibyte (YiB) 2 80
File sizes are limited by the file system that is used and its implementation. Here are details on the common file systems:
FAT16 FAT32 NTFS
Maximum File Size 2 32 - 1 bytes 2 32 - 1 bytes 2 64 - 1 KB
Maximum Volume Size 4 GB 32 GB 2 64 clusters
Files Per Volume 2 16 2 22 2 32 - 1