What is Megabyte?
A '''megabyte''' ('''MB''') is a large number used when talking about [[hard disk|hard drives]] or [[computer memory]]. One megabyte is 1 million [[byte]]s or 1 thousand [[kilobyte]]s. Until December 1998, when the [[International Electrotechnical Commission]] (IEC) first defined a [[mebibyte]] as 2<sup>20</sup>, or 1,048,576 bytes, ''megabyte'' also meant either 1,048,576 bytes, or 1,024,000 bytes. Casual computer users still often use megabyte to mean one of these numbers. One thousand megabytes make one [[gigabyte]]. This definition is part of the International System of Quantities. {{Commonscat}} {{-}} {{tech-stub}} [[Category:Units of information]]