On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:02:19 +0200, "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> wrote:
Now that sizes are in the Tera, the difference has become very important.
Which wouldn't be a problem hadn't the manufacturers of hard disks (or rather their marketing) at some point in history suddenly decided that their capacity would look *much* better if defining a kilobyte as 10³ bytes. My suspicion is that it was also them behind the move to create those XiB units.
That would be an exageration, and any way, there is no confussion in the names of the units.
Still, the confusion only started at the above mentioned point in time. And guess what, it's still a minority that actually uses the *iB units. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org