Comment Re:"Real GB" or "marketing GB"? (Score 1) 618
True Giga is 1000 based, So is Mega, Kilo etc
km = 1000 Meters
kV = 1000 Volts
kB = 1000 bytes of hard disk space
kb/s = Transmission speed of 1000 bits per second
*Only* in Software is 1k = 1024
the Real GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes the Marketing GB is a GiB and is 1,073,741,824 bytes