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The Tuesday 2007-05-01 at 08:48 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
> I bought a 300 GB (that's using the "new" term for GB) drive and a
> Linksys enclosure for around $120 combined.
300 _GB_ is the correct naming, as the prefix Giga meaning 10^9 is
way older than the "mistaken" computer parlance meaning of 2^30. This
second meaning should use instead the new standard GiB (gibibite).
Hard disk manufacturers have been using the "correct" term for disk sizes
for many years, although I guess not because it is correct, but because it
yields bigger numbers for the same actual size ;-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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