Tonmaus 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...
If I am not completely mistaken, 1^n/1,024^n is converging against 0 for n vs
infinite. That is certainly an unwarranted facilitation of Kryder's law for
very large storage devices.
Regards,
Tonmaus
well, that's true, even if it is Limit n->infinity for [1000^n /
1024^n] it's still 0. :-)
But seriously, you lose 2.3% per prefix. Right now, we're up to almost
a 10% difference at TB. In 10 years for Petabyte, we're at over 11%
loss. In 20 years, when Exabyte drives (or whatever storage is on) are
common, that's almost 15% loss.
Frankly, I'm starting to see an analog with Nautical Miles vs Statue Miles.
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