Talk:Computer capacity measurements

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The measure system in computer in bite base.

[edit] Factual Error?

I thought that 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes. 1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes. Can I change that? --Dolphinn_GoLeafsGo 14:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

It is correctly kibi and mebi. It was changed some years ago due to the ambiguity of names like "kilobyte" - kilo technically means 1000, so if you saw that a hard drive saw supposed to hold 1.5 GB, that could mean 1,500,000,000 or 1,610,612,736 bytes. This fact was sometimes exploited by manufacturers. So the new -bi prefixes were created, which refer non-ambiguously to 1024 of the previous unit.