>IMHO, what matters is that pretty much everything from the disk controller
>to the CPU and network interface is advertised in power-of-2 terms and disks
>sit alone using power-of-10. And students are taught that computers work
>with bits and so everything is a power of 2.
That is simply not true:
Memory: power of 2 (bytes)
Network: power of 10 (bits/s))
Disk: power of 10 (bytes)
CPU Frequency: power of 10 (cycles/s)
SD/Flash/..: power of 10 (bytes)
Bus speed: power of 10
Main memory is the odd one out.
>Just last week I had to remind people that a 24-disk JBOD with 1TB disks
>wouldn't provide 24TB of storage since disks show up as 931GB.
Well some will say it's 24T :-)
>It *is* an anomaly and I don't expect it to be fixed.
>
>Perhaps some disk vendor could add more bits to its drives and advertise a
>"real 1TB disk" using power-of-2 and show how people are being misled by
>other vendors that use power-of-10. Highly unlikely but would sure get some
>respect from the storage community.
You've not been misled unless you have your had in the sand for the last
five to ten years.
Casper
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