Megabyte

Abbreviated as meg or mbit, MB is short for megabyte. An MB is a measurement used with computer storage media that can equal to 1,048,576 (220) bytes or 1,000,000 (106) bytes depending on the manufacturer of a hardware device or the developer of software.
Tip: 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. See our Mebibyte (MiB) definition for a listing of kibibyte values where a megabyte is equal to 1,048,576 (220) bytes.


Megabyte (MB)                                                        ValueMegabyte 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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