Binary prefix at Digital Storage

[editicalu]

It would be nice to have the GiB, MiB and KiB to/from GB, MB, KB conversions

[editicalu]

Extra information on the matter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

[RITFW]

Yes, that would be really nice ;)

[bberberov]

Also for data transmission!

Mb/s <---> MB/s <---> MiB/s ...

[parnmatt]

Yes 👍

Current the conversions are wrong by ISO/IEC 80000-13 (and preceding standards)

1000 B (byte) = 1 kB (kilobyte)
1024 B (byte) = 1 kiB (kibibyte)

etc.

Right now the application is using the binary variants as with the decimal naming.

Decimal : 10^3n = 1000^n
Binary: 2^10n = 1024^n

n, dec sym, dec name, bin sym, bin name
0, B, byte, B, byte
1, kB, kilobyte, kiB, kibibyte
2, MB, megabyte, MiB, mebibyte
3, GB, gigabyte, GiB, gibibyte
4, TB, terabyte, TiB, tebibyte
... etc

Binary prefix substitutes the last letter grouping of the decimal (SI) prefix, and replace it with bi

and same for bits