What is a Megabytes?

Everything depends on data and its flow. Digital technology is directly dependent upon the management of this data flow by organizing data files and storage units efficiently. Now to perform this task there is an requirement of a measurement unit. By using this measurement unit the process and dataflow management system can efficiently handle small to large files and corresponding storage capacity of the device. There are various measurement units present but one of the most useful units is Megabyte(MB). In this article, we will discuss Megabyte and its relationship with other measurement units.

What is a Megabyte?

A megabyte (MB) can be defined as an intermediatory measurement unit for digital data. This unit can be used for quantifying the files, documents, and media files and making sense of the storage capacities of various digital devices computers, laptops, phones, etc. This unit can be described as intermediatory because it is neither a very small nor a very large unit. Megabyte is greater than Kilobyte(KB) and smaller than Gigabyte(GB). We all know that bit is the smallest unit of data. One byte is made of 8 bits. And one MB is made of one million(10^6) bytes or 1024 Kilobytes(KBs).

Terminologies

• Bit: It is the smallest unit of digital data measurement. It can hold only one digit like 0 or 1.
• Byte: It can be called as the fundamental unit for digital data measurement. One byte is consisting of 8 bits. It can hold only one character like a letter or a symbol or a number.
• Kilobyte: It consists of 1024 bytes. This unit is used to measure small-sized files or any data.
• Gigabyte: It is a large unit for data measurement. One gigabyte consists 1024 MBs. This unit is used to represent very large files, Hard drives and storage capacities of modern computers and mobiles.

So, the relation between these units can be written as below.

1 GB = 1024 MBs = (1024 * 1024) KBs = (1024 * 1024 * 1024) Bytes = (8 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024) Bits

Conversion of 1 Megabyte into Some Data-Storage Units

Below list shows the conversion of 1 megabyte into other data storage units.

1 Megabytes	Data storage units
1 MB equals to	8000000 bits (bit)
1 MB equals to	8000 kilobits (kbit)
1 MB equals to	8 megabits (Mbit)
1 MB equals to	0.008 gigabits (Gbit)
1 MB equals to	8.0E-6 terabits (Tbit)
1 MB equals to	1000000 bytes (B)
1 MB equals to	1000 kilobytes (KB)
1 MB equals to	1 megabytes (MB)
1 MB equals to	0.001 gigabytes (GB)
1 MB equals to	1.0E-6 terabytes (TB)

FAQs on What is a Megabyte

Q.1: Is megabyte(MB) is same as mebibyte(MiB)?

Answer:

Megabyte and Mebibyte are not same yet. However both are used as a measurement unit of data. Both the units indicate approximately same amount of data. The relation between them is 1 MiB = 1.048576 MB.

Q.2: How much amount of data can be hold by 1MB file?

Answer:

It is very much difficult to exactly tell how much data can a 1MB file hold. However, we can roughly say that, a 1MB text file(.txt) can consists of approximately 500 pages of plain text. Also a medium to high-resolution image can be stored into a 1MB image file(.jpg). Moreover, a 1MB audio file can store 1-2 minutes of music but audio quality may be compressed in this case.

Q.3: How many MBs are present in GB?

Answer:

Gigabyte(GB) is a larger data measurement unit compared to Megabyte(MB). One Gigabyte(1GB) can hold 2^10 or 1024 MBs.