Date: 10 Jan 2003 14:30:52 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST380021A Message-ID: <2obs2ofxib.s2o@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20030110200721.GV1196@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <20030110061803.GA14847@mrv.tusur.ru> <44bs2og502.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20030110200721.GV1196@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> writes: > to expand on this: hard disk vendors lie to the customers. when you > buy an "80 GB" disk you actually buy 80 * 1000 ^ 3 (Lowell, I don't think > drive got *that* big yet :), not 80 * 1024 ^ 3. > > American hd buyers might try a class action lawsuit. :) No doubt the lawyers would bring in Expert Witnesses saying that a GB is 10^9 bytes. And they'd be right. And wrong. I noticed Linux boot msgs giving sizes in "MiB", etc. Maybe a good idea, but it's ugly and I'd prefer an official FreeBSD dictionary for such things wherein GB = 2^30 in all docs, msgs, and source. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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