Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:08:31 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: Alexander Burke <alex@alexburke.ca> To: Daniel Tameling <tamelingdaniel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB key && NTFS Message-ID: <9ac9428c-7849-47d5-bf94-527c4b6e7e73@alexburke.ca> In-Reply-To: <ZafYt1-rY7F2Pr8s@mail.gmail.com> References: <Zaa3aZcOgvBzjwj9@c720-1400094> <a37ea3ef-efe5-4b9a-96bf-c1e55bd1da9d@alexburke.ca> <ZabMnIO5OU7GsVhx@c720-1400094> <95f1017b-9180-4f23-9c64-37b486cbd5c3@alexburke.ca> <ZafYt1-rY7F2Pr8s@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Daniel, Right you are! To me there is only one GB (1,073,741,824 bytes) and I try my hardest to avoid other definitions of the term... and it shows. ;) Cheers, Alex ---------------------------------------- Jan 17, 2024 14:40:25 Daniel Tameling <tamelingdaniel@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 10:05:07PM +0100, Alexander Burke wrote: >> >> They meant 128 GiB, but somehow the `i` tends to avoid the printing process Wikipedia blames the IEC for this disparity, but I call it cheating. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte#Definition >> > > Hi, > > it's the other way round: for storage, manufactures generally use a > conversion factor of 1000, which doesn't have the "i" in the unit. The > "i" denotes a conversion factor of 1024, which leads to smaller > numbers. However, omitting the "i" when using 1024 is also very > common. > > The wikipedia article you linked has a little bit further down the > following passage: "This means that a 300 GB (279 GiB) hard disk might > be indicated variously as "300 GB", "279 GB" or "279 GiB", depending > on the operating system." > > Best regards, > Daniel
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