Alexandr Malusek wrote:
Steve Kratz
writes: The difference is due to the wonderful world of hard drive manufacturer's marketing departments.
Standards define SI (k,M,G,...) and binary (Ki, Mi, Gi, ...) prefixes, see e.g. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html. The problem is that (1) people are not aware of these standards, and (2) people ignore them. The situation will get better when binary prefixes are accepted by general public. Then everybody will understand that 160 GB = 149 GiB.
BTW, 100 mb stands for 100 millibits.
Are those bits or bytes ? Another cause of confusion. Or do you mean to say B=bytes, b=bits ? After more than 20 year in computers, I was not aware that there was a 'standard' :-(. I just looked into that link, and we will have to adapt our speach also : Q : How much memory does your PC have ? A : It has one gibibyte of RAM. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.