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Re: BIG drives


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: BIG drives
  • From: Nigel Orr <nigel.orr@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 09:29:23 +0100
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At 21:04 28/09/99 GMT, you wrote:
>BTW, they have used the now pretty common trick of expressing the
capacity
>in "decimal Gigabytes" - IE x1000 instead of x1024, so
although not
>technically lying about the size, there's actually only 16GB available
to
>use.

You'd better get used to it- it's now an ISO standard to use Gibibytes for
x1024, bizarre though it sounds... with the prefix Gi, instead of G.  So
all K, M and G should be 1000 as they once were...

Strange but true...

Nigel

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