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

["Daniel B." <REMOVEdanielTHIS@fgm.com>]

hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
> > Mike McCarty wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any
> > > context where "KB" stands together as written with "K" meaning
> > > "karat".
> > That's not surprising--in SI, the prefix is the scale factor, and
> > the remainder is the unit.  I don't think there are any unit symbols
> > that have multiple uppercase letters.
>
> Is Hz for Hertz not standard?

Yes, it is standard.  Why do you ask?  It's certainly not a unit symbol
with multiple uppercase letters.

Daniel