[mythtv-users] seagate giving refunds out

[David Brodbeck]

On Dec 10, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 12/10/2007 09:50 AM, Fred Squires wrote:
>>> They all are--because there's a difference between GB and GiB,  
>>> and the
>>> manufacturers know what it is.  Unfortunately, they're selling to an
>>> uneducated public.
>>>
>> It seems to me that the manufacturers probably made up the GiB so  
>> they
>> could sell 466 GB drives as 500 GB and not technically lie.
>> When was the GiB made up anyway, I've only seen it over the course of
>> that last few years.
>
> If, in fact, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has
> begun making hard drives, perhaps.
>
> http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/binary.html

I suspect they came up with that scheme to justify and rationalize  
the confusion that the marketing drones had already wrought.