GB- GiB

[Knapp]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Jussi Kekkonen <tmt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 2009/4/15 Brian Norman Wootton <Brian.Meg at btinternet.com>:
>> OK, any six of youse guys, tell an old codger what the difference
>> is between MB/s and MiB/s, GBs and GiBs. That little i in the middle
>> is new to me.
>> brian
>
> GiB is multiple of 1024, GB is 1000
>
> More information in  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiB
>
> --
> Jussi Kekkonen

That is funny, I remember when the marketers chanced the 1024 to a
1000 to make their hard drives look bigger. Now we fix the problem
with a new name. LOL

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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