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Originally Posted by dJOS
I really dislike GiB - imo it was invented by the HDD manufacturers to make their Drives sound bigger than they really are (in other words marketing wankery).
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I've researched a lot of stuff as things have changed. Computer Science people I've been around that are a lot better with this math than I am say it's "new math" and it won't stick around. I don't like or dislike GiB, I'm just not used to it. I'm open to changes if they make sense. So far, GiB doesn't...other than formatted or not. I've read the previous link (
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Di...een-GiB-and-GB), but it didn't help.
I...will admit, that I wondered about the HDD makers using it. After all, once "Going Green/Organic" became the "in" thing..WD changed their common speed drives to a Green Label, without changing anything else that I notice and I've looked. Did I miss something?