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[-] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 52 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

KiB, MiB, GiB etc are more clear. It makes a big difference especially 1TB vs 1TiB.

The American way would probably be still using the units you listed but still meaning 1024, just to be confusing.

Either that or maybe something that uses physical measurement of a hard-drive (or CD?) using length. Like that new game is 24.0854 inches of data (maybe it could be 1.467 miles of CD?).

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 17 points 7 months ago

The difference really needs to be enforced.

My ram is in GiB but advertised in GB ???

[-] xionzui@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Your RAM is in GiB and GB. You can measure it either way you prefer. If you prefer big numbers, you can say you have 137,438,953,472 bits of RAM

[-] p_consti@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure the commenter above meant that the their RAM was advertised as X GiB but they only got X GB, substitute X with 4/8/16/your amount

[-] xionzui@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

As far as I know, RAM only comes in GiB sizes. There is some overhead that reduces the amount you see in the OS though. But that complaint is valid for storage devices if you don’t know the units and expect TB/GB on the box to match the numbers in Windows

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