brent timothy saner via plug on 29 Oct 2020 07:49:27 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Copying files to multiple volumes


On 10/29/20 09:46, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> Interesting! Of course this is all moot now since they won't come
> close to fitting on 2 drives.
> 
> Speaking of which, can we as an industry decide whether K,M,G,
> etc. refer to powers of 1000 or 1024? The reason I thought it might
> fit was because the "4 TB" drive had 4 trillion bytes, whereas all the
> other TBs were using 1024^4.
> 
> Sigh.
> 

it's not from lack of trying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(data)

you can thank disk manufacturers for not following proper notation.

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