Bry Ashman wrote, On 08/07/09 15:22:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Craig Falconer<[email protected]> wrote:
Blow that marketing fluff - they're gigabytes. If one drive maker would
have the testicles to quote actual capacity in gigabytes I'd support them.
I used to think that too!
But now I am not too sure. It makes sense for RAM to be in powers of 2
because of the way address buses work. However most other things like
network speeds are based on powers of 10. It can get every confusing
going back and forth between them sometimes. Which is better I am not
sure.
Why invent a new unit ? Other than to confuse the consumer.
However I must admit it is incredibly frustrating to explain why their
1TB drive is only around 930GiB.
I think its somewhere around 10^30 bytes where the difference exceeds
50% (but thats the one above xennabytes (10^27) and below vendekabytes
(10^33))
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Craig Falconer
