On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 02:09:04 +0100 Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Disk manufacturers measure kilos of data as 1000 > > Everyone else measures it in 1024 > > Well, to nitpick, they say it correctly, as for their "kilo", 10^3 > bytes is correct. We, the binary folk, assert kilo to be 2^10 bytes > which is actually called kibi, but we still use "kilo" in our > everyday language thanks to historical ballast (and because, as I > recently heard, the -bi units aren't around that long yet). First > time I heard of them was in uni lecture ~2003±1. Yeah, I know the reasoning they use. But the entire world and everyone in it intuitively expects disk capacity to be measured in units of 2^X Especially as the disk manufacturers themselves make their disks to have allocation unit like 512, 1024 and 4096 bytes, not 500, 1000 and 4000 -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
