This article is about the decimal unit of data.

For binary unit of 1024 2 bytes, see mebibyte. For

other uses, see Megabyte (disambiguation).
"MByte" redirects here. For the battery electric car from Byton, see Byton M-Byte.
Not to be confused with megabit.
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The megabyte is a multiple of the
 e unit byte for digital information. Its
Multiple-byte units recommended unit symbol is MB. The unit
Decimal Binary prefix mega is a multiplier of 1000000 (106)
Value Metric Value IEC Memory in the International System of Units (SI).
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 Therefore, one megabyte is one million
1000 kB kilobyte 1024 KiB kibibyte KB kilobyte bytes of information. This definition has been
10002 MB megabyte 10242 MiB mebibyte MB megabyte incorporated into the International System of
10003 GB gigabyte 10243 GiB gibibyte GB gigabyte Quantities.
10004 TB terabyte 10244 TiB tebibyte TB terabyte
10005 PB petabyte 10245 PiB pebibyte In the computer and information technology
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10006 EB exabyte 10246 EiB exbibyte fields, other definitions have been used that
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10007 ZB zettabyte 10247 ZiB zebibyte arose for historical reasons of convenience.
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10008 YB yottabyte 10248 YiB yobibyte A common usage has been to designate one
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10009 RB ronnabyte – megabyte as 1048576bytes (220 B), a
100010 QB quettabyte – quantity that conveniently expresses the
Orders of magnitude of data binary architecture of digital computer
memory. The standards bodies have
deprecated this usage of the megabyte in favor of a new set of binary prefixes,[2] in which this
quantity is designated by the unit mebibyte (MiB).

Definitions
The unit megabyte is commonly used for 10002 (one million) bytes or 10242 bytes. The
interpretation of using base 1024 originated as technical jargon for the byte multiples that needed
to be expressed by the powers of 2 but lacked a convenient name. As 1024 (210) approximates
1000 (103), roughly corresponding to the SI prefix kilo-, it was a convenient term to denote the
binary multiple. In 1999, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published
standards