Hard Disk RepairGlossary of Hard Disk Drive Terminology (Letter K) DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago11 years ago01 minsKilobyte (KB) Usually, this is a unit of 1000 bytes. In the case of computer memory, which is partitioned into sizes that are a power of two, a kilobyte is equal to 2 10 or 1024 bytes. Post Views: 555Post navigationPrevious: Glossary of Hard Disk Drive Terminology (Letter J)Next: Glossary of Hard Disk Drive Terminology (Letter L)