Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2001 10:00:17 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Configure.help editorial policy |
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:47:50PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 06:36:22PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Also, a GB of disk space really is 2^10 * 10^6 ... > > Better make sure we get it consistent ... *runs like hell*
I always thought they'd like to count the size of disks in bits... man, don't you really want on of those new 240Gbit disks? I hear they can pull in a sustained 200Gbit/s on reads!
But what Rik points out shows that right now there is ambiguity BECAUSE OF LACK OF STANDARDIZATION --- because GB is vague at the very best, disk manufactures get to claim nice marketing numbers.
As for bits/second sort of thing, this is common in networking of course, especially when they talk about raw data rate and ignore framing overhead and such like.
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