John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.
At least on some drives they actually say
1.000.xxx.xxx kilo bytes.
MfG
Goswin
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