RE: Re: 180gb Drive Format ?

["Ian Willoughby" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Actually I think you are being a bit hard on the manufacturers (I am not
one of them), as back in the old days of 20Mb drives and even up to about
10Gb drives the error was not very big. As long as people know what they
are buying  or have no clue as to what a Binary GigaByte is compared to a
Decimal one as is the case for most computer users, but not on this list,
then really I makes no difference (You really are not going to miss 9Gb on
a 180Gb drive as you will have already upgraded to a 1Tb drive by time you
are running low on space (But please rember that those nice disk people
will be out by another 100/1024 at this point

;-).

R's
Ian


-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tue 17/06/2003 12:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: 180gb Drive Format ?



--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ian  Willoughby" <ian@i...> wrote:
> Correct. It is the same as Miles and Nautical Miles. The disk
industry choose 1000 as their yardstick because geometry of a hardisk
has no real relation to any particular numberbase (Except maybe
numbers of heads) and 1000 is a much easier number to base
calculations on for us mere mortals :-)
>

Yeah, I'm sure that the hard disk manufacturers use 1000 as their
multiplier number because it is easier for us and them to count that
way. Or could it be that their marketting department think that 180Gb
looks better on the box than 171Gb ;-)