In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
12/18/2006
at 11:18 AM, "Horne, Jim - James S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Only if you want to match up with the vendor numbers. ;). Disk
>x-bytes are always in multiples of 10 instead of powers of 2
Always is a long time. There is no industry standard; even a unit of
2^10*10^3 is or was common.
>I guess the vendors wanted the numbers to look bigger.
No, for that they gave the unformatted[1] capacity.
[1] Low level, not file system.
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