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File Size vs. Size on Disk: Why such a difference?
kyrathaba:
On a related note, when various companies sell you storage media, they use this formula:
1 MB = 1000 KB
I read somewhere that the proper use today, to distinguish this mishmash of units, is to say:
1 MB = 1000 KB
versus
1 MiB = 1024 KiB
I wish everyone would stick to the base-2 way of expressing file sizes.
wraith808:
I wish everyone would stick to the base-2 way of expressing file sizes.
-kyrathaba (May 06, 2013, 07:13 AM)
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Unfortunately, that way is a bit more than the populace is actually comfortable with, especially considering other things in regards to memory usage.
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