Re: Adding a smaller drive

[John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/06/2009 23:52, John Robinson wrote:
> On 28/06/2009 22:22, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> >     I'm not confidant of that presumption.  I would not be surprised in
> > the least if some manufacturer produced a 1T drive with an actual 999.8G
>
> If they did that, they'd be lying in describing it as a 1TB drive. I 
> wish they'd be more honest in the first place and sell them as 931GiB 
> drives, or make real 1TiB drives, but the marketing literature does at 
> least explain their definition of TB, GB etc.

Maybe it wouldn't be lying if they redefined 1KB to be 998 bytes. I 
vaguely recall there being an xkcd strip suggesting something similar...

Cheers,

John.


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