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Petabit vs Megabit - What's the difference?

petabit | megabit |

Megabit is a coordinate term of petabit.



In computing terms the difference between petabit and megabit

is that petabit is a unit of information or storage equal to 1015 bits while megabit is 220 = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit.

petabit

English

Noun

(wikipedia petabit) (en noun)
  • (computing) A unit of information or storage equal to 1015 bits

    • See also

    *pebibit

    megabit

    English

    (wikipedia megabit)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) 106 = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes)
  • * 1965 , IBM, Field Engineering Theory of Operation 2311 Disk Storage Drive , page 3-27
    • When reading clock pulses only, the signal frequency is 625 kHz. The bit rate, however, is twice the signal frequency, or 1.25 megabits /sec.
  • (computing) 220 = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit

    • Synonyms

    * Mb * Mib

    Coordinate terms

    * bit , kilobit , gigabit , terabit , petabit , exabit

    Related terms

    * megabyte (MB)

    See also

    * Mbps ----