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Megabyte

• One megabyte of data is equal to one million bytes. ^[1]
• The equivalent of 1,000,000 bytes or 700 double-spaced pages of typed material, each page holding approximately 1,500 characters (bytes). ^[2]
• A million bytes of data is a megabyte, or simply a meg. ^[3]
• 1,000 kilobytes (KB) or 1,048,576 bytes.

See also

• Bit
• Byte
• KB – kilobyte
• MB – megabyte
• GB – gigabyte
• TB – terabyte
• PB – petabyte
• EB – exabyte

1. ^[1] Vinson & Elkins LLP Practice Support, EDD Glossary. ↩
2. ^[2] Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005). ↩
3. ^[3] Kroll Ontrack, Glossary of Terms, http://www.krollontrack.com/glossaryterms ↩