Am Freitag, den 05.04.2013, 12:59 +0100 schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs: > The default to base-10 units, is good as majority of the installer > deals with HDD drives (not SSD) and not RAM.
SSD manufactures use base-10 units, too. Even 128 GB SSDs have 128 * 10^9 bytes for the users, but 128 * 2^30 bytes internally. The difference between 128 GiB and 128 GB (9.44 GB) is used for over-provisioning. > ps. there are disk manufactures that mix base-2 and base-10 units. > E.g. using one to calculate "1MB" and then using the other multiply > and gain GB/TB factors /o\ I know one example: The "1.44 MB" labeled floppy, which contains twice as much space as a "720 KB" floppy. The "720 KB" floppy has 720 KiB and the "1.44 MB" has 2 * 720 KiB = 1.44 * 1000 * 1024 bytes = 1.41 MiB = 1.47 MB! -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1365165546.3086.10.camel@deep-thought
