Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote: > > Explained another way (hopefully); > > If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes* > > No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'. > The big 'K' was chosen exactly to differ 1024 from 1000 - small 'k'. > > But this can't be applied for 'M' because big 'M' is 1 000 000, while smal > 'm' is 0.001 (1/1000).
So what do you propose as a solution ?? Maybe I'm dense, but; kb = kilobit KB = KiloByte mb = megabit MB = MegaByte 1 bit * 8 = 1 byte 1 Byte / 8 = 1 bit This is even more of a hot button issue since the advent of SATA and PCI-Express and Serial signaling rates across interfaces. E.g.; Serial ATA (SATA) data transfer rate specification = 1500 *mbps* or *mb/sec* (megabits per second). 1500 / 8 = 187.5 *MBps* or *MB/sec* - but since 8/10b encoding is used, the actual data transfer rate drops 20% - so the "nominal/useful" rate ends up being 150 *MB/sec* ....now, if you look up - you'll notice 150MB and 1500mb (which are both correct) - and SATA II specs (while not yet set in stone) are 300MB and 3000mbps. This also appears incorrect since 3000mbps / 8 = 375MBps (not 300), but many people do NOT account for the 8/10b encoding conversion, so they end up writing ALL sorts of differing specs about Transfer rates (the big Tel-Co(s) are great at this game). > > If you bought a 1,000,000 Byte (1MB) HDD - you'd lose 48 *KiloBytes* > > If you bought a 1,000,000,000 Byte (1GB) HDD - you'd lose 73 > > *MegaBytes* > > If you bought a 1,000,000,000,000 Byte (1TB) HDD - you'd lose 99 > > *GigaBytes* > > Luckily, HDD manufacturers count with KB/KiB (1024B)'s, so 10GB HDD was > counted as 1 000 000 KB - 1 024 000 000 Bytes. This was because HDD's use > 512B sectors, and it's easier to divide number of sectors by 2 than to > multiply it by 512. Luckily ? I think not.... Why would I want to divide sectors anyway. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
