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Re: [SLE] Big Hard Drive problem
- From: Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 07:59:03 -0400
- Message-id: <20031001075903.11af12bc.cpchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 07:02:36 -0400
Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx> wrote:
> You're confusing GB (gigabytes) with GiB (gigabinary bytes). GB is
> 10^9, or 1,000,000,000. GiB is 2^30, or 1,073,741,824. Drive makers
> use GB, not GiB.
Please refer to these. There is a law suit going on right now.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=3&u=/nm/20030918/tc_nm/tech_computers_suit_dc
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/2245200&mode=thread&tid=123&tid=137&tid=198&tid=99
Charles
--
Why use Windows, since there is a door?
(By fachat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andre Fachat)
Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx> wrote:
> You're confusing GB (gigabytes) with GiB (gigabinary bytes). GB is
> 10^9, or 1,000,000,000. GiB is 2^30, or 1,073,741,824. Drive makers
> use GB, not GiB.
Please refer to these. There is a law suit going on right now.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=3&u=/nm/20030918/tc_nm/tech_computers_suit_dc
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/2245200&mode=thread&tid=123&tid=137&tid=198&tid=99
Charles
--
Why use Windows, since there is a door?
(By fachat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andre Fachat)
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