What is the difference between 1 kib and 1 kb

Since there is a huge difference between 'SI' and 'IEC' units, the confusion rises even bigger with larger capacity of disks. Many people complain when they for example buy hard disk of GB their OS operating system is showing only " GB". This is not manufacturer fault, and it is not a marketing trick. It is true that gigabytes is equal to , but gibibytes. We need to blame OS here, because it is still using that wrong notation. Some OS's like windows are still using obsolete notation without proper IEC names for units, that confuses users.

But, on the other hand some OS's like Linux are using the right notation, because of it's "open source" code policies. We should write small k in kilo abbreviation, because uppercase K is Kelvin so kB is kilobyte and KB would represent to some people kelvinbyte, and that is just wrong unit. The fact that IEC units "sound weird" isn't good enough reason to stick with SI units and prefixes with binary notation base 2. If you don't like the name gibibyte than use something that won't be linked to real value of gigabyte, like "binary gigabyte".

Why should we decide which notation to use? Imagine that you are going to warehouse to buy some wooden planks of exact length of 10 'units' , because you want them to fit exactly to what you are building.

Than you spend some time fixing these planks by making them shorter and than you realize you just bought one extra plank. Next day you go to another warehouse because first one from yesterday was closed. But, this time you are smarter and you buy planks of length 9. You arrive home and notice that now these are shorter than you hoped to be, because second warehouse was using different values.

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