The mistake was using the "Kibi" prefix. "Kibibyte" just sounds a bit silly when said out loud.
"Giga" was considered to sound silly until it became common and we no longer care. "Yotta" sounds silly (to me) now.
"Tera" always sounded cool though.
Surely you mean Gibi ;)
Yes, 2**10 times this, yes.
Call me calcitrant, reactionary, or whatever, but I will not say kibibyte out loud. It's a dumb word and I'm not using it. It was a horrible choice.
They should call their stupid SI power-of-10 units kisibyte instead.
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."
>"I bought a two tib SSD."
no you didn't, that doesn't exist, you bought 2 trillion bytes, 99 billion bytes short
Actually, it sounds very serious and appropriate.
Studio Kibi
"mebi" and "gibi" aren't any better, last one in particular if you say it as "jibby-bytes"
Does it really matter if it sounds silly?
Considering it meant people didn't use it, yes.
"Giga" was considered to sound silly until it became common and we no longer care. "Yotta" sounds silly (to me) now.
"Tera" always sounded cool though.
Surely you mean Gibi ;)
Yes, 2**10 times this, yes.
Call me calcitrant, reactionary, or whatever, but I will not say kibibyte out loud. It's a dumb word and I'm not using it. It was a horrible choice.
They should call their stupid SI power-of-10 units kisibyte instead.
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."
>"I bought a two tib SSD."
no you didn't, that doesn't exist, you bought 2 trillion bytes, 99 billion bytes short
Actually, it sounds very serious and appropriate.
Studio Kibi
"mebi" and "gibi" aren't any better, last one in particular if you say it as "jibby-bytes"
Does it really matter if it sounds silly?
Considering it meant people didn't use it, yes.