What is kilobyte (decimal)?

A kilobyte in the decimal (SI) system is a data unit equal to 1,000 bytes. It is used by storage manufacturers and network providers to express file sizes and data transfer rates.

What is mebibyte (binary)?

A mebibyte is a binary data unit equal to 1,024 kibibytes, or 1,048,576 bytes. It is used in operating systems, RAM specifications, and software contexts where exact binary data sizes are required.

Worked examples

1 kilobyte (decimal) = 0.00095367 mebibyte (binary)

1 mebibyte (binary) = 1,048,576 byte

More Data conversions

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Assumption: both decimal (kB, MB, GB, TB) and binary (KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB) units are included.