Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)
On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote:
> Explained another way (hopefully);
> If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*
No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.
The big 'K' was chosen exactly to differ 1024 from 1000 - small 'k'.
But this can't be applied for 'M' because big 'M' is 1 000 000, while smal
'm' is 0.001 (1/1000).
> If you bought a 1,000,000 Byte (1MB) HDD - you'd lose 48 *KiloBytes*
> If you bought a 1,000,000,000 Byte (1GB) HDD - you'd lose 73
> *MegaBytes*
> If you bought a 1,000,000,000,000 Byte (1TB) HDD - you'd lose 99
> *GigaBytes*
Luckily, HDD manufacturers count with KB/KiB (1024B)'s, so 10GB HDD was
counted as 1 000 000 KB - 1 024 000 000 Bytes. This was because HDD's use
512B sectors, and it's easier to divide number of sectors by 2 than to
multiply it by 512.
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