[mythtv-users] seagate giving refunds out
Mikael Abrahamsson
swmike at swm.pp.se
Mon Dec 10 19:54:01 UTC 2007
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).
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike at swm.pp.se
More information about the mythtv-users
mailing list