Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)
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."
By convention, the "k" for "kilo" is permitted to be in either case.
The "M" for "mega" is *never* lower case, as that means "milli".
So "mb" means "millibit", which one wonders what that could be.
A byte is not universally 8 bits, by the way.
Mike
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