From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: lrhorer@satx.rr.com
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding a smaller drive
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:07:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A47F7B9.3040003@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A47F438.4070905@anonymous.org.uk>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-28 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-28 18:31 Adding a smaller drive Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-28 19:05 ` John Robinson
2009-06-28 19:47 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-28 21:09 ` John Robinson
2009-06-28 21:22 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-28 22:52 ` John Robinson
2009-06-28 23:07 ` John Robinson [this message]
2009-06-29 10:05 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-07-01 4:16 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-28 21:33 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-06-28 21:49 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-06-28 22:33 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2009-06-28 22:51 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-06-28 23:37 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2009-06-28 23:43 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-06-28 23:57 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2009-07-01 4:12 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-07-01 5:25 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-07-03 15:46 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-07-06 0:05 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-07-07 3:15 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-28 23:54 ` John Robinson
2009-06-29 0:02 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2009-06-29 10:07 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-06-29 14:45 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-07-03 16:12 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-07-03 17:23 ` Billy Crook
2009-07-04 14:59 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-07-04 15:20 ` John Robinson
2009-07-05 22:03 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-07-05 22:12 ` John Robinson
2009-07-07 2:57 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-30 17:01 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-06-30 18:22 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-07-01 18:53 ` Bill Davidsen
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