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ZylonBane t1_iy8yarc wrote

Reply to comment by NadirPointing in Eli5 Why there arent like 20gb USBs instead each usb has twice as much as the previous(8gb,16gb,32gb,64gb,128gb by nightmarebg69

Kibblebytes can fuck right off. A kilobyte will be 1024 bytes until the day I die.

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NadirPointing t1_iy8zvbl wrote

Prepare for disappointment when getting a harddrive.

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belugwhal t1_iy92b7d wrote

Anyone who works closely enough with computers to have an opinion on this understands that a one GB hard drive actually provides less storage space than one (proper) GB. I'm with ZylonBane. They should have made 1000 bytes a kibibyte (therefore releasing most of us from having to use it) and left kilobyte alone as the proper term. If anything I will use kB or KB but not KiB. That's just silly.

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