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Why does the title have the 'i' in 4 MiB of RAM? That's 4 megabytes, right? Traditionally 4 MB? What does the extra lowercase letter indicate? I'm not used to
by Cd00d 4y ago
Why does the title have the 'i' in 4 MiB of RAM? That's 4 megabytes, right? Traditionally 4 MB?
What does the extra lowercase letter indicate? I'm not used to that, and I've been dealing with bytes from the kilo-size to the peta-size for 40 years.
- johnnyapol 4y agoMiB refers to mebibyte, which is in base-2 (2^20 bytes). MB is canonically base 10 (10^6 bytes).
- kadoban 4y agoMiB is an attempt to disambiguate what used to be unambiguous before the hard drive companies set their marketing teams on it. Specifically, MiB is 1024^2 bytes. MB is either that or 1000^2 bytes, depending on who you ask and if they're trying to sell you something.