Exabyte vs Megabyte - What's the difference?
exabyte | megabyte |
One million bytes. SI Symbol: MB
* 1964 , IBM,
* 1973 , IBM,
(computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB.
* 2003 , Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs , page 933
* 2004 , Kerry Cox & Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools , page 92
* 2006 , Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed , page 290
In computing terms the difference between exabyte and megabyte
is that exabyte is a unit of storage capacity, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) bytes while megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB.exabyte
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(megabyte)Noun
(en noun)System/360 System Summary, page 27
- The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second.
Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, page 3
- This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.
- One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.
- Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).
- By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.
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*The IEC explanation of its definitions----