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

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

+++ Matus UHLAR - fantomas [21/04/06 08:54 +0200]:
> > >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.

All very strange.  I grew up with lowercase for small, uppercase for large:

   m milli-   10^-3
   c centi-   10^-2
   d deci-    10^-1

   D deca-    10
   H hecta-   10^2
   K kilo-    10^3

   M mega-    10^6
   G giga-    10^9

   etc...

It was simple in those days... before computers.  But I wouldn't want to be
without...  

Also before cereal packs started confusing calories and Kcal.  Can we get any
further OT I wonder?

--
richard