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Comment by j2kun

20 days ago

When I read "KiB" I say "kib" and it's fine. Similar for GiB, TiB, PiB.

"I bought a two tib SSD."

"I just want to serve five pibs."

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fsckboy  20 days ago

>"I bought a two tib SSD."

no you didn't, that doesn't exist, you bought 2 trillion bytes, 99 billion bytes short

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