If a gigabyte is 10^9 bytes, then why do common technologies use numbers like 32, 64, 128, 256 gigabytes instead of something like 100, 200, 500 to easily file into 10s?

Question

What is the purpose of these seemingly arbitrary multiples of 2

In: Technology

Answer 1

It’s important not to mix up gibibytes and gigabytes.

Colloquially we use the word “gigabytes” for gibibytes but one is base 10 and the other is base 2.

2^30 vs 10^9