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The switch - although not in my head - came when more people got computers, cameras and iPods, being exposed to storage compared to computers, where they didn't
by Uchikoma 14y ago
The switch - although not in my head - came when more people got computers, cameras and iPods, being exposed to storage compared to computers, where they didn't care or know. People care about storage since the store large amounts of mp3 and images.
1000KB = 1GB, 1000GB = 1TB is easier for most people than 1024KiB = 1GiB, 1024Gib = 1TiB.
- scholia 14y agoManufactures do it because bigger numbers sell better than smaller ones. Which works fine until people create or download a few files and find they have been conned: they don't have as much usable space as they thought they'd paid for.