22 Jun
2004
22 Jun
'04
19:38
Steve Kratz <steve@townnews.com> 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. -- A.M.