Byte per second (B/s)
Eight bits per second.
What is a byte per second?
- Symbol
- B/s
- Quantity
- Data Transfer
- Unit system
- other
- Definition
- Eight bits per second.
- Exact
- Yes, the value is exact by definition
- Source
- IEC 80000-13:2008, Quantities and units: Information science and technology
Common applications
The base unit for byte-based transfer rates, used in programming and for very slow transfers.
Byte per second in other data transfer units
- 1 B/s = 8 bit/sBit per second
- 1 B/s = 0.008 kbit/sKilobit per second
- 1 B/s = 0.000008 Mbit/sMegabit per second
- 1 B/s = 8e-9 Gbit/sGigabit per second
- 1 B/s = 8e-12 Tbit/sTerabit per second
- 1 B/s = 0.001 kB/sKilobyte per second
- 1 B/s = 0.000001 MB/sMegabyte per second
- 1 B/s = 1e-9 GB/sGigabyte per second
- 1 B/s = 0.0009765625 KiB/sKibibyte per second
- 1 B/s = 9.5367431640625e-7 MiB/sMebibyte per second
- 1 B/s ≈ 9.313225746e-10 GiB/sGibibyte per second
Byte per second quick reference
| Byte per second | Megabit per second | Megabyte per second | Bit per second |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 B/s | = 0.000008 Mbit/s | = 0.000001 MB/s | = 8 bit/s |
| 10 B/s | = 0.00008 Mbit/s | = 0.00001 MB/s | = 80 bit/s |
| 100 B/s | = 0.0008 Mbit/s | = 0.0001 MB/s | = 800 bit/s |
| 1000 B/s | = 0.008 Mbit/s | = 0.001 MB/s | = 8000 bit/s |
Where the byte per second fits
The next smaller data transfer unit is the bit per second (bit/s). 1 B/s = 8 bit/s, and 1 bit/s = 0.125 B/s.
The next larger data transfer unit is the kilobit per second (kbit/s). 1 B/s = 0.008 kbit/s, and 1 kbit/s = 125 B/s.
Frequently asked questions
- How many megabits per second are in one byte per second?
- One byte per second = 0.000008 Mbit/s (megabits per second).
- How many megabytes per second are in one byte per second?
- One byte per second = 0.000001 MB/s (megabytes per second).
- How many bits per second are in one byte per second?
- One byte per second = 8 bit/s (bits per second).