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Is it really "ripping them off" to use SI prefixes for base 10 just because (a huge number of) other people are accidentally using SI prefixes (base 10) when they really ought to be using IEC prefixes (base 2)?

Calling it a a "2 TiB disk" when it's actually a 2,000,000,000,000 B disk would be a blatant ripoff.



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