MiB is NOT megabits per sec (Mbps)

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Hi,

Just to be clear with units, bits is not same as bytes and MiB/s is not same as Mbps (Megabits per sec). MiB is mebibyte which is 2^20 bytes.

Hope I am not wrong here.

Thanks

Ashok Patel Answered 5 months ago · Answer 1 · 2021-08-14 05:08:15

Ashok Patel

Answered 5 months ago

Hi,

MiB is a Mebibyte which is 1024 Kibibytes (1024 bytes)

MB is a Megabyte which (sometimes) is 1000 Kilobytes (1000 bytes)

more detailed info here

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