Comment by Macha

> Another one: You buy a 16 GB (real GB) flash drive. You have 16 GiB of RAM. Oops, you can't dump your RAM to flash to hibernate, because 16 GiB > 16 GB so it won't fit.

Right but the problem here is that RAM is produced in different units than storage. It seems strictly worse if your 16GB of RAM doesn't fit in your 16GB of storage because you didn't study the historical marketing practices of these two industries, than if your 16 GiB of RAM doesn't fit in your 16 GB of storage because at least in the second case you have something to tip you off to the fact that they're not using the same units .