[mythtv-users] seagate giving refunds out

[Remco Treffkorn]

On Monday 10 December 2007, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> 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).

Ahhh, so this is why my 2GB of ram does not fit into my 2GB of swap!

While we are at it, why not make the sector size 4000 instead of 4096? Would 
be logical. Sure sucks that the Linux page size is 4094, but that's RAM, so 
it's okay.

But enough with that technical mumbojumbo. Lets's just arbitrarily choose a 
meaning, but make sure we use MB/GB as the unit regardless. More fun this 
way.

I just wonder which choice to make for tapes? Kind of like a grid with a 
single row, if you unroll it.

From here to "pi==4" is not far ;-)
 
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