Hans, The disk drive capacity is always expressed in Megabytes (the new ones are expressed in Gigabytes). However, when they talk of recording density on a disk surface, it is expressed in bits (or Megabits/Gigabits) per square inch. The current recording density achieved in laboratory is over 35 Gigabits /square inch. Regards, Ravinder PCB Development and Design Department IBM Corporation - Storage Systems Division *************************************************************************** Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. .... Mark Twain Hans Mellberg <emcconsult...@yahoo.com>@ieee.org on 01/07/2000 10:02:09 AM Please respond to Hans Mellberg <emcconsult...@yahoo.com> Sent by: owner-emc-p...@ieee.org To: Derek Walton <l...@rols1.net>, Gary McInturff <gmcintu...@telect.com> cc: "'Egon H. Varju'" <e...@varju.bc.ca>, EMC-PSTC <emc-p...@ieee.org> Subject: Re: Y3K speaking of garbled use of units, How many buy hardrives in bits? everyone I hear says "bytes" as in a 10 megabyte HD. They even abbreviate is as 10 MB when it should be called a 10 Megabit drive (10 Mb) with little b as big B is for Byte. ===== Best Regards Hans Mellberg EMC Consultant --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
