Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:13:19 -0600 From: Frank Knobbe <frank@knobbe.us> To: Derrick Ryalls <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 200gb hard drive? Message-ID: <1069373598.491.140.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <A99A5AC30F74624388EE5F757BA58A20D7A04D@RED-MSG-50.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> References: <A99A5AC30F74624388EE5F757BA58A20D7A04D@RED-MSG-50.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
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--=-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--
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