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

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Willie Wonka <floydstestemail@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I concur; 
> -- however (and I should refine my statement earlier, about HDD Manu's
> in general, as a *lie* - to perhaps *exaggerate*, or a similarly less
> harsh word), - your 20GB HDD actually size (contains) is more than 20
> Billion Bytes (likely ~20,587,000,000 bytes). This just makes for
> unnecessary further confusion..here's an example using the 'hdparm'
> utility (which I'm sure you're familiar with);
> 
> e.g.; I have some 80GB HDDs here, which are actually 82,348MB -or-
> 78,533MiB
> 
> ~$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/hda
> ...
> ...
> device size with M = 1024*1024:   78533 MBytes
> device size with M = 1000*1000:   82348 MBytes (82 GB)

Actually my drive is really 20GB

# hdparm -I /dev/hda
...
...
        device size with M = 1024*1024:       19077 MBytes
        device size with M = 1000*1000:       20003 MBytes (20 GB)

> I appreciated this dialog/dialogue :-)
> All I can think of now, because I'm hungry is
> (donuts/doughnuts/dough-nuts).
> 
> Regards

Me too, but I'm not hungry, at least not now (1:10 AM)

Regards
Andrei
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