Bleh. This morning I talked to someone about SSD's, memory, and such, and this person decided to go all hipster.
"So you think a 238 Gibibyte SSD is large enough?"
Dude. Be normal. *NOBODY* uses kibibyte, mebibyte or gibibyte. That crap has been invented (and pushed) by hard drive manufacturers. I know, kilo, mega or giga means thousand, million and billion, so they don't exactly fit computer counting.
However, in the computerworld, it has been accepted that '1 kilo' is 1024, not 1000, and so on. Hard disk manufacturers who create a 256 gigabyte hard drive, count using thousands, instead of 1024, so it'll be 256 billion bytes (256 000 000 000), instead of 274.877.906.944 bytes. Thus, the true size of the hard disk will be 238.42 GB.
Of course, if you then redefine kilobyte, megabyte and gigabyte to count using thousands instead of 1024, and introduce kibibyte, mebibyte and gibibyte to represent the 1024 versions, you'll suddenly be right when stating your hard disk is 256 GB. It'll be exactly true.
So, yes. If you're talking about a 238 Gibibyte SSD, I know you probably mean a model that is listed as 256 GB. I also know the true size of the disk will (probably) be 238 GB (or 238 *** Gibibyte if you so please).
I also know these terms for counting in 1024 steps has been 'official' since 1998, but in practice, nobody ever uses them. At least not in The Netherlands. So, don't try and go all smartass on me. I've been in IT too long for such idiocy. Just use the terms everybody else in the Netherlands uses and has been using for 40 years or so, and don't make an ass of yourself.
What's next; are you also going to talk about Gebibit Ethernet or something?
Edit: This.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/old...11-00/?p=17933
It seems it's not only true for the Netherlands.
Quote:
Although the International Electronic Commission established the term kibibyte for 1024 bytes, with the abbreviation KiB, Windows Explorer continues to use the abbreviation KB. Why doesn't Explorer get with the program?
Because nobody else is on the program either.
If you look around you, you'll find that nobody uses [....] You have to go out of your way to find people who use the terms kibibyte/KiB, mebibyte/MiB, gibibyte/GiB, etc [...]
In other words, the entire computing industry has ignored the guidance of the IEC.
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edit 2: I said, don't try to go smartass on me
I *know* Linux does use KiB, MiB and GiB, and AFAIK, they're the only one. Don't even mention it.