Here are the things that would change:
No more Kilobytes, Megabytes, and Gigabytes
Since Kilo, Mega, and Giga are based off 10, they will not be used.Instead will be Triquabytes (12^3 bytes), Hexquabytes (12^6 bytes), Ennquabytes (12^9 bytes) and Unnilquabytes (12^12 bytes)
Even though a kilobyte is only ideally 1000 bytes, and usually 1024 bytes, this is because 1024 is so close to 10^3. Unfortunately for base 12, there is no reasonable (less than 12^9) binary approximation power, so the powers of 12 have to be used.
assuming the prefixes are based of 1024, here are the conversions from new and old storage units:
(all values decimal)
1 Triquabyte = 1.6875 Kilobytes
1 Hexquabyte = 2.84765625 Megabytes
1 Ennquabyte = 4.805419921875 Gigabytes
1 Unnilquabyte = 8.1091461181640625 Terabytes
Flash Drives and SD cards would come in 1 HB (Hexquabyte), 2 HB, 4 HB, and 8 HB sizes, While Hard drives would come in *40 HB, *80 HB, *140 HB, and *280 HB
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