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hard drives intentionally use giga and tera rather than gibi and tebi. They're right; it's the memory sticks that are usually wrong :-)
by alanfranz 1y ago
hard drives intentionally use giga and tera rather than gibi and tebi. They're right; it's the memory sticks that are usually wrong :-)
- chuckadams 1y agoNobody says "gibibyte" out loud without giggling or getting giggled at. I think we should start saying "gigglebyte".
- hinkley 1y agoKnow that several of your coworkers are laughing at you in their minds every time you utter such foolishness.
- bombela 1y agoI have had to debug enough fires because of stupid unit confusion that I now make the point of being extremely pedantic with the use of the right unit.
- genewitch 1y agojigglybits works too in the correct company also cal state irvine had a compsci prof who said "jigga-byte"
- hinkley 1y agoOne point twenty one jiggabytes??? Great Scott!
- edoceo 1y agoI've been calling them Kibbles, Marbles, Gerbils and Tribbles
- hinkley 1y agoPebble scale computing is all the rage right now.
- jimmaswell 1y agoIMO it's the ISP's who are intentionally misleading people. Average Joe might have some inkling of how big a gigabyte is these days, but nobody except a network engineer cares what a gigabit is. I can't imagine how many people buy gigabit fiber expecting a gigabyte. It would sound much less impressive if it were marketed as 125MB/s like it should be. They should at least be required to show both, not make people convert units if they want to find out how fast their advertised internet is supposed to download their 50GB game.
- hnuser123456 1y agoYou could also blame Windows. Linux counts storage bytes in base 10. But still counts RAM in base 2.
- spauldo 1y agoI don't think that counts as intentionally misleading since bits/second is the correct measurement for any serial connection and has been since the days of Baudot. Joe Blow might misunderstand it but that's on Joe. It's not like the situation with hard drives where they're going against industry convention for marketing purposes.