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I really hate when people are sloppy with notation. 20GB = Twenty Gigabytes NOT 20gb = Twenty gram bits and: 20MB/s = Twenty Megabytes per second NOT 20m
by slyall 13y ago
I really hate when people are sloppy with notation.
20GB = Twenty Gigabytes
NOT
20gb = Twenty gram bits
and:
20MB/s = Twenty Megabytes per second
NOT
20mbytes/sec = Twenty milli-bytes per second ( If you got you B's and b's correct about you would need to write out "bytes" )
- jpk 13y agoMy favorite is "5KB". The prefix for kilo- is a lowercase 'k'. Uppercase 'K' is Kelvin. I don't even know how to conceptualize a Kelvin-Byte.
- wyager 13y ago>I don't even know how to conceptualize a Kelvin-Byte. I can actually see where this unit would be useful; in determining the probability of bit rot. The more kelvins you have, and the more bytes you have, the more likely you are to flip a bit due to random fluctuations. temperature*storage capacity = Kelvin-Bytes.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y agoOnce you have that figured out, try to conceptualize Kelvinbyteohms aka Kelvinbytes per Siemens!
- illicium 13y agoIf you want to be really pedantic, differentiate SI giga/megabytes as GB/MB and "binary" gibi/mebibytes as GiB/MiB
- StavrosK 13y agoSo 1024 bytes is 1 kiB?
- jpk 13y agoYep, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
- robocat 13y agoFrom your link it is KiB with a capital K.
- barrkel 13y agoI just use K, M, G, T to evade the whole ISO thing altogether. Kibbles, mibbles, gibbles and tibbles just make me shake my head.
- optimiz3 13y agoThis is actually a major annoyance in some fields - Xilinx for example likes to use GB to represent 1024^3 for storage on FPGAs while HDD manufacturers like to use 1000^3. IMHO [ZYEPGMK]?iB is the way to go to end this non-sense.
- tanzam75 13y agoI agree. In the kilobyte world, 2.4% may not have been too big of a deal. In the terabyte world, there's a 10% difference between binary and decimal prefixes. That's way bigger than rounding error. We need to start using the binary prefixes.
- 6cxs2hd6 13y agoI'm old enough to remember what MB and GB meant before sleazy marketers started to redefine them. They should have been sued for deceptive advertising. Instead the computer press of the time was spineless, because guess who paid for the ads. So I refuse to be a wuss and use MiB and GiB. (Also, get off my lawn.)
- dragonwriter 13y agoSince mega- and giga- haf well-established meanings as prefixes to measures, and the original common usages of MB and GB were inconsistent with those meanings, I prefer MiB and GiB for those uses, even though it took marketers using the correct versions for devious reasons to get terms popularized that distinguished the base-2 prefixes from the close-but-not-the-same base-10 prefixes.
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