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Jubair and others allegedly stole 18 megabytes of data including thousands of names of Court employees, job titles, work locations, and usernames, and cellphone numbers.—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025 Most SSDs have a maximum of at least 500 megabytes per second; this can transfer the average game in roughly 4 minutes.—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2025 Vampire Survivors weighs in at a puny 600 megabytes.—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025 As for capacities, HDDs have grown from multiple megabytes to multiple terabytes, more than a million-fold increase, while retaining their same 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch physical sizes.—PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for megabyte
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from the fact that 1,048,576 (220) is the power of 2 closest to one million
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