Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

[Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk>]

CaT wrote:
> Because dividing by a multpile of 10 essentially simply moves the
> decimal point to the left. The thing that's not bleedingly obvious
> there though is that 156290816 is in kibibytes. :) So:
>
> 156290816 * 1024 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 ~= 160.04 GB :)
>
> Similar for 468872448.
If it's decimal, what's that "1024" doing there and why the odd number 
"156290816" for a "Kibibyte"?  Surely they should ALL be powers of 10?

Seems a tad inconsistent to me...

Besides...  1024 is "decimal"...  2^10!!!  :þ

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