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Re:We are under attack by bsder on Thursday March 19, 2015 @07:17PM (#9235230)
The real problem is that mega/giga/tera/peta have well established uses meaning "factor or 10" for EVERYBODY except people talking about memory.

Disk space even obeys this now even though it was only done by marketing so they could reduce the amount bits delivered while charging the same.

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Re:We are under attack by creshal on Friday March 20, 2015 @08:29AM (#9237230)
Trick question: How many bytes are in a 1.44MB floppy? In a 700MB CD? A 4GB USB stick? And a 480GB SSD? How many bytes/s bandwidth for 10Gb Ethernet?

I can't understand how people can be so delusional to think that randomly redefining prefixes is a good idea. It was never, ever used consistently, and JEDEC just should get rid of this idiocy.

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Re:We are under attack by bsder on Friday March 20, 2015 @08:51PM (#9241479)
Trick question in return: I'm selling a 256GB SSD. How many bytes am I legally required to deliver?

This is why there is a need for the two different prefixes. If I am selling a 256GiB SSD and you are selling a 256GB SSD, those are now differentiable on their face.

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