Someone show me the maths!

[Hans Voralberg]

Then both harware makers and software makers need to change to Kibi, Mebi, ect. Kilio, mega, are base 10.

Err, you think anybody will change, we so used to this way that it's kinda impossible.

[oralpain]

Actually, I am quite certain no one of any significance is going to change. They know they are technically wrong, but they also know that being technically right is not going to make them any more money, so there is no reason to change.

[Steve]

Then both harware makers and software makers need to change to Kibi, Mebi, etc

I have seen several programs use this, but it is always abbreviated so that only the geekiest of geeks will know what it actually means.

[Agent]

I can see exactly what your saying, and I do agree with you in the aspect of naming conventions.
Kilo, mega, ect... imo, should not have been used for the computing terms that they are used for today, simply because they are inaccurate.
Its stupid yes, I guess we can just hope that kibi-, mebi-, gibi-ect prefixes do take off.

We could discuss it forever, but it all falls down to the incorrect naming conventions being used in the first place. I prefer to stick on the side of a Kilobyte equals 1024, even though the “Kilo” bit makes it ‘technically’ incorrect. The name means nothing to me, however, the value that it represents does.

Actually, I am quite certain no one of any significance is going to change. They know they are technically wrong, but they also know that being technically right is not going to make them any more money, so there is no reason to change.

But it could loose HD manufactures money.
If all 200gigabyte HD’s suddenly became 186gibibytes, it looks like your loosing 14 gig somewhere along the line, even though the amount of space is identical. Average Joe wont know the difference.

Btw, nice name

[badass]

Yes, it is.

Using kilobyte for 1,024 bytes is factually wrong, even with computers. It was started as an abreviated and unofficial way of simplifing things. It is still incorrect and it never was official. Hardrive makers never changed a thing.

The prefixes officially mean the same thing regadless of what they are infront of. Kilo is always 1000, mega is always 1000000, ect, wether it's infront of a gram, liter, ohm, byte, ton, whatever.



Then both harware makers and software makers need to change to Kibi, Mebi, ect. Kilio, mega, are base 10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm

I suggest you learn what "de facto" means before saying I'm wrong!

As I said before, The conventions in use at the time HDD manufacturers started their misleading naming was different to what they chose to use. Therefore they went against convention to advertise space as larger than it really is. They are in the wrong.