megabyte
Million bytes, roughly
A megabyte is a unit of digital information storage, roughly one million bytes.
In computing contexts, it often means exactly 1,048,576 bytes (2²⁰), while in storage marketing it typically means exactly 1,000,000 bytes.
The abbreviation is MB.
Once considered substantial, megabytes now measure small files—a photograph, a short audio clip: The attachment was only 2 megabytes.
Storage space occupied
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- RAMTemporary data storage hardware
- hard driveComputer's internal storage device
- flash drivePortable digital storage device
USB · SD card · CD-ROM · DVD · diskette · solid-state · cloud storage · partition
Remote-to-local data transfer
- uploadTransfer data outward
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- data transferMoving information electronically
compression · streaming · buffering · bitrate · speed · connection · sync · file sharing
Largest standard storage measure
Component that executes instructions
- cacheConcealed storage spot
- bufferProtective intermediate space
- firmwareHardware's permanent programming
- softwarePrograms directing computer operations
hardware · database · virtual memory · heap · stack · executable · application · operating system
file size
Storage space occupied
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- RAMTemporary data storage hardware
- hard driveComputer's internal storage device
flash drive · USB · SD card · CD-ROM · DVD · diskette · solid-state · cloud storage · partition · allocation
download
Remote-to-local data transfer
- uploadTransfer data outward
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
- throughputProcessing rate over time
data transfer · compression · streaming · buffering · bitrate · speed · connection · sync · file sharing · attachment
yottabyte
Largest standard storage measure
processor
Component that executes instructions
- cacheConcealed storage spot
- bufferProtective intermediate space
- firmwareHardware's permanent programming
software · hardware · database · virtual memory · heap · stack · executable · application · operating system · encoding
- Mega- Wordsmegapixel, megacity, megastore, megachurch, megaplex
- computer metricsbit depth, yottabyte, terabit, petabit, file size
- computer termsbit, binary, cursor, click, code
- computingcomputer, computers, software, hardware, code
- Digital Techinternet, computer, software, hardware, email
- capacitystorage, volume, size, room, space