Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:25:28AM +0100, Wulfy wrote:
> 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!!! :?
because the sizes are measured in blocks originally, and a block is 1024
bytes, which is one KiB but 1.024 KB.
-- hendrik
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