[LINK] Is it Gb or GB?

[Adam Todd]

At 06:30 PM 6/11/2006, Kim Holburn wrote:
Also is it GB for Gigabyte and Gb for Gigabit?  These days a lot of
>>people use Gb for Gigabyte; I believe that is wrong too.
>>
>>Comments please?
>
>Google.
>http://www.google.com/search?q=Gb+gigabyte+gigabit
>
>Generally among the cognoscenti GB = gigabytes and Gb is gigabits but
>everyone else probably ignores this.

I fail to see how you can ignore this!  If I sold you a 1 GB memory card 
you'd be happier than if I sold you a 1 Gb memory card!

Hmmm, a 400 Gigabit hard drive over a 400 Gigabyte hard drive!

I know which I prefer.

I also hate the GB = 1,000,000,000 when it really should equal the binary 
value (I'm not going to work that out!)

Sam with MB represented as 1,000,000 bytes.  It's not.  (And it's not 
1,024,000 either!)

>Mind you there is a lively discussion about whether a KB is 1000
>bytes or 1024 bytes, a Megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes
>etc.

Damn, you gave it away :)

>It matters if you have to account for or be accounted for
>network traffic ;-)

I think it's more a concern if you have a datastream coming from a video 
source in Bytes and you are loading it onto a 300 Gigabyte drive that is 
calced as 10's and not 2's!