On Wed, July 8, 2009 12:21, Bry Ashman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Craig Falconer<cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz> > wrote: > >> Bry Ashman wrote, On 08/07/09 15:02: >> >>> >> Blow that marketing fluff - they're gigabytes. If one drive maker >> would have the testicles to quote actual capacity in gigabytes I'd >> support them. <Snip> > > I used to think that too! > > > But now I am not too sure. It makes sense for RAM to be in powers of 2 > because of the way address buses work. However most other things like > network speeds are based on powers of 10. It can get every confusing going > back and forth between them sometimes. Which is better I am not sure. > > However I must admit it is incredibly frustrating to explain why their > 1TB drive is only around 930GiB.
In my opinion the kibi-, mibi-, and gibi- prefixes are execrebly lame. I think it's better to use the conventional kilo-, mega- and giga- prefixes, since they sound good, and to actually know what you are talking about. After all, these are not the only of homonyms in the English language. Oblig. Linux content: Err, my Mepis netbook's in my bag? A
