The megabyte, MB or mbyte is a unit used to measure amount of computer data.
It is used to measure file size, storage capacity, data transfer speed (by adding a unit of time, usually seconds), etc.
A megabyte is equal to exactly 1024 KB (kilobytes) or 1,048,576 bytes, according to traditional computing units.
1024 (MB) megabytes equals 1 GB.
How big is a megabyte?
1 MB is equivalent to 400 pages of a book.
5 MB is what a 4-minute song in mp3 occupies.
650 MB is the capacity of a CD-ROM with 70 minutes of audio.
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Byte Unit Conversions
Name
Symbol
Binary
number of bytes
Equivalent
kilobyte
KB
2^10
1,024
=
megabyte
MB
2^20
1,048,576
1,024KB
gigabyte
UK
2^30
1,073,741,824
1,024MB
terabyte
TB
2^40
1,099,511,627,776
1,024GB
petabyte
PB
2^50
1,125,899,906,842,624
1,024TB
exabyte
EB
2^60
1,152,921,504,606,846,976
1,024PB
zettabyte
ZB
2^70
1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
1,024EB
yottabyte
YB
2^80
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176
1,024ZB
To understand the difference with kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte…
Read: Units of bytes.
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