On Tue, March 16, 2010 14:59, Erik Trimble wrote: > > Has there been a consideration by anyone to do a class-action lawsuit > for false advertising on this? I know they now have to include the "1GB > = 1,000,000,000 bytes" thing in their specs and somewhere on the box, > but just because I say "1 L = 0.9 metric liters" somewhere on the box, > it shouldn't mean that I should be able to avertise in huge letters "2 L > bottle of Coke" on the outside of the package...
I think "giga" is formally defined as a prefix meaning 10^9; that is, the definition the disk manufacturers are using is the standard metric one and very probably the one most people expect. There are international standards for these things. I'm well aware of the history of power-of-two block and disk sizes in computers (the first computers I worked with pre-dated that period); but I think we need to recognize that this is our own weird local usage of terminology, and that we can't expect the rest of the world to change to our way of doing things. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
