On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 06:50 -0700, Glen Gunselman wrote:
> There was a time when manufacturers know about base-2 but those days
> are long gone.
Oh, they know all about base-2; it's just that disks seem bigger when
you use base-10 units.
Measure a disk's size in 10^(3n)-based KB/MB/GB/TB units, and you get a
bigger number than its size in the natural-for-software 2^(10n)-sized
units.
So it's obvious which numbers end up on the marketing glossies, and it's
all downhill from there...
- Bill
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