Megabyte

A megabyte is 1024 kilobytes. In the early days of computing, a Megabyte was considered to be a large amount of data. These days with a 500 Gigabyte hard drive on a computer being common, a Megabyte is considered a much smaller denomination of data. An old 3-1/2 inch floppy disk can hold 1.44 Megabytes or the equivalent of a small book. 100 Megabytes holds several encyclopaedia volumes. 600 Megabytes is about the amount of data that will fit on a CD-ROM disk.