Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote:
Using software compression resulted in 73 Gbyte data compressing to 30 Gbyte. (I use AIT-1 tapes, 35 Gbyte native, actually amtapetype reports 33400 Mbyte: difference between marketing and reality).
That's just the difference between GiB and GB :-)
That's exactly what I mean.
Manufactures of tapes and disks use the ISO standard where K=1000 etc. While you can't blame them for misinformation (it is an international standard), they ignore the fact that most computer-users use K=1024.
That's why Amendment 2 of IEC 60027-2 is proposed (Ki=1024, or k=1000 and K=1024, etc.).
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