How to convert value to KB, MB, or GB depending on digit placeholders?

Question

I have the following

Import-Module SqlServer

$Analysis_Server = New-Object Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Server  
$Analysis_Server.connect(\"$server\")

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Answer 1

Here's two more ways of formatting a size in bytes:

1) Using a switch()

function Format-Size() {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
        [double]$SizeInBytes
    )
    switch ([math]::Max($SizeInBytes, 0)) {
        {$_ -ge 1PB} {"{0:N2} PB" -f ($SizeInBytes / 1PB); break}
        {$_ -ge 1TB} {"{0:N2} TB" -f ($SizeInBytes / 1TB); break}
        {$_ -ge 1GB} {"{0:N2} GB" -f ($SizeInBytes / 1GB); break}
        {$_ -ge 1MB} {"{0:N2} MB" -f ($SizeInBytes / 1MB); break}
        {$_ -ge 1KB} {"{0:N2} KB" -f ($SizeInBytes / 1KB); break}
        default {"$SizeInBytes Bytes"}
    }
}

2) By performing a loop where the gives byte size is repeatedly divided by 1024

function Format-Size2 {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
        [double]$SizeInBytes
    )

    $units = "Bytes", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB", "EB"
    $index = 0

    while ($SizeInBytes -gt 1024 -and $index -le $units.length) {
        $SizeInBytes /= 1024
        $index++
    }
    if ($index) {
        return '{0:N2} {1}' -f $SizeInBytes, $units[$index]
    }

    return "$SizeInBytes Bytes"
}