Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)
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'.
Nope. Both the "K" and the "k" have been used in electronics
to mean "times 1000" since I got involved in about 1965 or so.
[snip]
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.
HDD manufacturers do all kinds of things with numbers.
Mike
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