A MiB is a mebibyte. It is 1,048,576 bytes in size and is an attempt to correct the confusion that the term megabyte has suffered. In college they taught us that a megabyte was 2^20 but vendors have adapted the term to their needs for the sake of marketing and usability. I’ll probably keep using megabyte for most of my communications but I have noticed that MiB is being used more frequently. This Novell Connection Magazine article jogged my memory on the term. There is an online type converter available at Easy Calculation.
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