&quot;Kibi&quot; and &quot;Mebi&quot; is moron speak. A kilobyte is 1024, a megabyte is 1024<i>1024, and a gigabyte is 1024</i>1024*1024. Period.<p>Anyone who is using base 10 is simply wrong.<p>Or lying to sell you a smaller storage unit.<p>Whatever confusion there exists, it was created by dishonest mass storage manufacturers. Prior to 1990-something, there was no confusion. As larger and larger storage devices became available on the mass consumer market, the sneaky bastards at Seagate, Quantum et al started to use base 10 to make their products appear more capacious.<p>The solution for that is to simply take back the kilobyte.<p>Possibly, legislation could help: make it unlawful for a storage device which holds 100000000000 bytes to be called a gigabyte device.