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What is a byte?

What is a byte? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (computing) A sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.
  2. (computing) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits
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Choose a deduplication solution that can deduplicate at the byte level without impeding backup performance.
Here is how this four byte sequence is interpreted as an unsigned integer under the two ordering conventions.
I now know there are eight bits in a byte, and 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte.
The smartctl t command starts a self test that reads every byte on the disk.
Storage is measured in bytes, one byte containing eight bits, and representing storage for one character in European alphabets.
The 0s and 1s are then formed together to produce binary, which is interpreted by the computer as a byte of data.

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