What is Mebibyte (MiB)?

A mebibyte (MiB) is a unit of measurement used in computer data storage. The prefix mebi comes from the binary system of data measurement that is based on powers of two. A mebibyte equals 220 or 1,048,576 bytes. The mebi prefix and its companion binary prefixes -- kibi, gibi, tebi, pebi, exbi, zebi, yobi -- were created in December...