Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)
Willie Wonka <floydstestemail@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > 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).
>
> So what do you propose as a solution ??
>
> Maybe I'm dense, but;
> kb = kilobit
> KB = KiloByte
> mb = megabit
> MB = MegaByte
>
> 1 bit * 8 = 1 byte
> 1 Byte / 8 = 1 bit
AFAIK the only standard abbreviations are the "clasic" SI. 1k = 1000,
1M=1.000.000, and so on. I don't know of any other standard. Of course,
this doesn't mean it doesn't exist :)
Andrei
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