Messages in this thread | | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:42:20 GMT | Subject | Re: Configure.help editorial policy |
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> Most disk sizes are an unholy mixture of the two > that deserves a stake through the heart, > where 1 GB = 1,024,000,000 bytes.
"Are"??
I see several good people spout this particular type of nonsense here. If I interpret "are" to mean that that is the unit disk manufacturers use, then it is false - as far as I know no manufacturer uses this.
Let us look at Maxtor. They are so friendly to give disk size as part of the type. Maxtor 91728D8 - 17280442368 bytes, 17280 MB, 17.2 GB Maxtor 93652U8 - 36529274880 bytes, 36529 MB, 36.5 GB Maxtor 96147H6 - 61473226752 bytes, 61473 MB, 61.4 GB
You see that the number of GB claimed by the manufacturer is just (number of megabytes)/1000. There is no 2.4% difference that could justify your strange claim.
All disk manufacturers always use decimal. And this has been true for many years.
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