Megabyte

Updated: 03/05/2023 by Computer Hope

Abbreviated as MByte, meg, or Mbit, MB is short for megabyte. An MB is a measurement of binary data. It equals 1,048,576 (220) bytes or 1,000,000 (106) bytes, depending on the device's manufacturer that stores the data.

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When the "b" is lowercase (Mb), this refers to a megabit.

What comes before a megabyte?

A kilobyte comes before a megabyte.

What comes after a megabyte?

A gigabyte comes after a megabyte.

Megabyte vs. other data measurements

Below is a listing of megabyte values where a megabyte is considered 1,000,000 bytes. Using this chart, you can find how many megabytes are in other measurements. For example, you can see 1,000 megabytes in a gigabyte. For measurements that are smaller than a megabyte, the decimal value is shown.

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See our MiB (mebibyte) definition for a listing of kibibyte values where a megabyte equals 1,048,576 (220) bytes.

Megabyte (MB) Value
Megabyte in a Bit (b) 0.000000125
Megabyte in a Nibble (N) 0.000001
Megabyte in a Byte (B) 0.000001
Megabyte in a Kilobit (Kb) 0.000125
Megabyte in a Kilobyte (KB) 0.001
Megabyte in a Kibibit (Kib) 0.000128
Megabyte in a Kibibyte (KiB) 0.001023999476
Megabyte in a Megabit (Mb) 0.125
Megabyte in a Megabyte (MB) 1
Megabyte in a Mebibit (Mib) 0.131072
Megabyte in a Mebibyte (MiB) 1.04858
Megabytes in a Gigabit (Gb) 125
Megabytes in a Gigabyte (GB) 1,000
Megabytes in a Gibibit (Gib) 134.218
Megabytes in a Gibibyte (GiB) 1,073.74
Megabytes in a Terabit (Tb) 125,000
Megabytes in a Terabyte (TB) 1,000,000
Megabytes in a Tebibit (Tib) 137,439
Megabytes in a Tebibyte (TiB) 1,100,000
Megabytes in a Petabit (Pb) 125,000,000
Megabytes in a Petabyte (PB) 1,000,000,000
Megabytes in a Pebibit (Pib) 140,700,000
Megabytes in a Pebibyte (PiB) 1,126,000,000
Megabytes in an Exabit (Eb) 125,000,000,000
Megabytes in an Exabyte (EB) 1,000,000,000,000
Megabytes in an Exbibit (Eib) 144,115,188,000
Megabytes in an Exbibyte (EiB) 1,152,921,500,000
Megabytes in a Zettabyte (ZB) 1,000,000,000,000,000
Megabytes in a Yottabyte (YB) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000

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