kB, kiB, MB, MiB, GB, GiB, TB and TiB

Ok, since 12 years already the storage industry agreed upon using the scientifically correct terms for Giga (meaning 1,000,000,000) instead of 1024x1024x1024. Even in course material these days this is promoted. Do me a favor and Google the word "Gigabyte" and see what you get! If you look at the Wikipedia document you'll get some perfect links to sites explaining the SI system. It's perfectly explained what the actual difference between GB and GiB is!!

So 1TB = 1000GB and 1GB = 1000MB and so on.

So I'm using Solutions Enabler (latest version 7.4) and to my surprise I'm seeing this:

            512-byte Blocks      :   92160000

            MegaBytes            :      45000

            KiloBytes            :   46080000

So 92,160,000 blocks of 512 bytes are available in a certain tdev. This is 92,160,000 x 512 = 47,185,920,000 bytes.

So how can this be only 45,000 Megabytes? Where's the 2,185,920,000 bytes that's gone missing?

And what's even more weird: If this tdev is 45,000 MB, why is this suddenly 46,080,000 bytes? All of a sudden I'm getting 1,080,000 kB back?

EMC, come on, get your facts straight and start using the correct abbreviations. So what do I now report to the host admin? How much GB did I just give him? 47.185, 46.08 or 45 ? Now what is it?

I think the easiest way to actually resolve this is to start using GiB (meaning 1024x1024x1024 bytes) and kiB (small k means kilo, because a large K represents Kelvin).

Any thoughts on this?