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*
> Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> >No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.
> >The big 'K' was chosen exactly to differ 1024 from 1000 - small 'k'.
On 19.04.06 12:09, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 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.
I have never seen/heard about that, but you may be right. However, for
computer busines (I'm kinda involved only since 1986) I've always and
everywhere seen the explanation I provided above.
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