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Gigabyte versus Gibibyte

Are the hard drive vendors screwing us?

the answer is no. At least when it comes to the number of bytes they promise you can store on their drives they’re not. Oh really?

In July 2012 I wrote a blog post on “saying what you mean to say“, so people cannot misinterpret what you’re trying to point out. Gigabyte, Gibibyte, Joules, Calorie, kilo Calorie, degrees Celsius, but not degrees kelvin (it’s just kelvin or capital K).

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