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On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 02:09:04 +0100 |
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Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > Disk manufacturers measure kilos of data as 1000 |
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> > Everyone else measures it in 1024 |
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> Well, to nitpick, they say it correctly, as for their "kilo", 10^3 |
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> bytes is correct. We, the binary folk, assert kilo to be 2^10 bytes |
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> which is actually called kibi, but we still use "kilo" in our |
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> everyday language thanks to historical ballast (and because, as I |
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> recently heard, the -bi units aren't around that long yet). First |
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> time I heard of them was in uni lecture ~2003±1. |
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Yeah, I know the reasoning they use. But the entire world and everyone |
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in it intuitively expects disk capacity to be measured in units of 2^X |
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Especially as the disk manufacturers themselves make their disks to |
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have allocation unit like 512, 1024 and 4096 bytes, not 500, 1000 and |
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4000 |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |