Hi, i wrote: > > It is a classic that programs talk mixed about GB and GiB while not > > clearly distinguishing them.
Michael Stone wrote: > This is basically never an issue in conversational usage as the difference > is less than the margin of error or real-world precision. If you're planning > for a million dollars worth of storage, yeah, But what about a 25 cent DVD-R which is labeled "4.7 GB" and only can take 4.377 GiB (4482.625 MiB, 4,700,372,992 bytes) ? I see such complaints in the web every few months. (With interesting theories about what might be wrong.) > Since we know that 1.5Gbyte/s SATA > doesn't exist we've clearly identified that there was confusion when reading > the original spec There could also have been confusion about SATA and NVMe, at least. Have a nice day :) Thomas
