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I though it was SI retroactively standardizing the Ki Mi Gi prefixes in an attempt to fix things, and before that the common usage of GB was just 2^30 Bytes. T
by rocqua 7y ago
I though it was SI retroactively standardizing the Ki Mi Gi prefixes in an attempt to fix things, and before that the common usage of GB was just 2^30 Bytes.
The SI system can give a definition of GB, but that doesn't mean they have given the definition of GB.
- aaronmdjones 7y agoNeither. G is the SI suffix Giga, and always means 1,000,000,000. GiB is an IEC unit, not an SI unit. They're from entirely different bodies.