Comment 5 for bug 573382

This is not a bug it makes sense to use different units in different applications.

In the real world I go to the supermarket and things are for sale in grams and kilograms. When I hire a removal truck its rated in tonnes.
Could you imagine how confusing it would be to walk into the supermarket and try to work out the price of apples if they were marked at $2 per 1000 grams. Or to hire a 1,500,000 gram truck.

Maybe the difference between kb, Mb, Gb, Tb is harder to understand for those country's not using the metric system.

Also this is not what the upstream Nautilus bug is about. The upstream bug is about the use of different units in Nautilus itself which again I dont think is an issue in fact I think its more useful to have something displayed as 1.5Gb rather than 1,500,000 Kb as suggested.

For those who dont know:
The K in Kb stands for Kilo which is 1,000
The M in Mb stands for Mega which is 1,000,000 (One Million)
The G in Gb stands for Giga which is 1,000,000,000 (One Billion)
The T in Tb sands for Tera which is 1,000,000,000,000 (One Trillion)

In other words each unit is just multiples of 1,000.
Kb is 1,000 bytes, Mb is 1,000 Kb, Gb is 1,000 Mb, Tb is 1,000 Gb

In summary this is just one of those things you should learn about to use you computer effectively. It will also he you when deciding the specifications of your next computer, tablet, smartphone, etc