-=PCTechTalk=- Re: MB's?
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:20:59 -0500
How about just selling drives that equal 500GB of usable space AFTER
formatting? The public really won't care if that means 536GB of space on
the platters. ;)
Peace,
Gman
http://www.bornagainamerican.org
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Disastar" <disastar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:05 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: MB's?
>I agree they should have used the industry standard, but there is another
> way to look at it... what if they were originally rounding off? If you
> called a 250 GB drive the real value of 232 GB, then you would have to
> think
> a little more to figure out if that 465 GB drive is twice as much storage.
> Even numbers like 100, 200, 250, 400, 500, 600, 750 are easier to remember
> and deal with. OK, so the first hard drives I can remember were 5 MB, so
> they should have been called 4.768 MB drives?
>
> Oh, and Stefan, I do remember hearing several times about the difference
> between k and K, but I have never seen it used consistently. And besides,
> kB looks kinda weird. Hehe
>
> Ed
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