[mythtv-users] seagate giving refunds out

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Larry Sanderson wrote:

> The first hard drive using MB as 10^6 was done in 1974.  That's 33 
> years... It has long ceased to be a marketing-ploy/fraud, and has become 
> the lingua franca of storage devices.  Seagate should not be penalized 
> for a decision made long before they even existed.

Quite, the reason for 1024 as a factor only makes sense for things that 
are in grids, like memory. Harddrives have sectors, and different amount 
per track depending on what track it is (the length of the track).

So yes, memory makes sense to count in 1024, harddrive capacity does not 
(even though some make the case that is makes sense due to the block size 
being even power of two).

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se