On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote: > Explained another way (hopefully); > If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*
No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'. The big 'K' was chosen exactly to differ 1024 from 1000 - small 'k'. But this can't be applied for 'M' because big 'M' is 1 000 000, while smal 'm' is 0.001 (1/1000). > If you bought a 1,000,000 Byte (1MB) HDD - you'd lose 48 *KiloBytes* > If you bought a 1,000,000,000 Byte (1GB) HDD - you'd lose 73 > *MegaBytes* > If you bought a 1,000,000,000,000 Byte (1TB) HDD - you'd lose 99 > *GigaBytes* Luckily, HDD manufacturers count with KB/KiB (1024B)'s, so 10GB HDD was counted as 1 000 000 KB - 1 024 000 000 Bytes. This was because HDD's use 512B sectors, and it's easier to divide number of sectors by 2 than to multiply it by 512. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Honk if you love peace and quiet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
