From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 16:13:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6673A16A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:13:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.praemunio.com (mail.praemunio.com [66.179.47.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4819443FE1 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:13:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@knobbe.us) Received: from localhost (HELO mail.knobbe.us) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 18:13:24 -0600 Received: from server1.home.knobbe.us by firewall1.home.knobbe.us with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 18:13:20 -0600 Received: from localhost (HELO frankslaptop.knobbe.us) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 18:13:20 -0600 Received: from localhost (HELO ??) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 18:13:19 -0600 From: Frank Knobbe To: Derrick Ryalls In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-UBkXi9XvvXq3Y48R4FwH" Message-Id: <1069373598.491.140.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:13:19 -0600 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 200gb hard drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:13:28 -0000 --=-UBkXi9XvvXq3Y48R4FwH Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:56, Derrick Ryalls wrote: > When manufacturers talk about drive size, they use base 10. When compute= r > report drive size, they use base 2. So, if you divide 200,000,000 bytes = by > ( 1024 * 1024 ), you get roughly 190gig in binary, so off the bat you los= e > 10gigs of space due to marketspeak translation. That's not always the case. I have seen disk manufacturers use something like base 20 :) In other words, they advertise a 160 GB drive which only holds 120 GB. I hope they get sued for this crap.... talk about deceptive marketing...geesh... Frank --=-UBkXi9XvvXq3Y48R4FwH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/vViepo+MRgtrF98RAnPoAJ9Zq0WFhdHpFexYrtfBVuzD7X4yzQCbBUhb lbIkfXS+T6rZtJRC/K8enBM= =adki -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-UBkXi9XvvXq3Y48R4FwH--