On Tuesday 23 February 2010 10:38:42 Alan Cox wrote: > > First, most (all?) hard drive manufacturers define 1gb as 1000mb. In > > reality, 1gb is 1024mb. Therefore, a hard drive that is sold as a 320gb > > In fact they are giving you more than you asked for. Giga is a prefix for > 10^x series. So really they should be giving you 1000000000 bytes > > > hard drive has only 312.5gb of actual space. Calling it a 320gb hard > > drive is a marketing ploy to make it sound larger. > > Its correct (slightly over) but it does confuse because computing people > used the wrong units for so long and often still do.
There's even a (rather old) joke about this: Q: How many meters are there in a kilometer? A: 1024, of course. Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
