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

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:31, Willie Wonka wrote:
>
>   
> > Maybe I'm dense, but;
> > kb = kilobit
> > KB = KiloByte
> > mb = megabit
> > MB = MegaByte
> >
> > 1 bit * 8 = 1 byte
> > 1 Byte / 8 = 1 bit
> >     
>
> That's right, except it's kb or kB (for kilobits and kilobytes respectively), 
> never KB or Kb.  k is "kilo," K is "Karat."
>   
That may be true somewhere but it's not a very strong standard.  
aptitude agrees with you but the Firefox downloader does not not do NIST 
or Wikipedia or the AECMA

I learned that upper case metric prefixes were used for multiples of 
units where lower case letters were used for divisions of units.

Paul Scott