To give you a very 'unsatisfying', but truthful' answer; It's all up to MARKETING.
They use the terms as they wish, to make the drives seem as large as possible, with little regard for providing useful information for the consumer. Sorry!!! Chuck D. On Sep 3, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: > >> If you want to avoid a "no-man's land" in a partition, the break >> should be at precisely 131,072 MB. > > A most interesting thread. I'm not about to use the patch but I do > have a question and it's about the meaning of MB and GB in this > context. It's not clear, especially with disk drives, whether G > stands for 2^30 or 10^9 and similarly about M being 2^20 or 10^6. > Gi, Ki, and Mi, the binary prefixes based on 1024, are almost never > used even though they would clear things up. > > that 131,072 seems to be an attempt to make everything clear but it > doesn't. > > 131,072 MB = 143730409472(10) B or > > 131,072 MB = 131072000000(10) B > > Which is it ? > > And where does 128, which is 2^7, come in? > > 128 GiB = 2^7 * 2^30 = 137438953472(10) B > > and that doesn't match anything. > -- > > --> A fair tax is one that you pay but I don't <-- > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
