brent timothy saner via plug on 29 Oct 2020 08:33:10 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Copying files to multiple volumes


On 10/29/20 11:24, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:48:57AM -0400, brent timothy saner via plug wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> It's not just them. Binary and decimal are used interchangeably by
> most people, and hardly anyone uses kibi/mebi/gibi/tebi. As those
> articles make clear, the differences are going to grow dramatically as
> storage increases.

why do you think most people use the improper notations?

>> you can thank disk manufacturers for not following proper notation.

chain of influence, but they were the first. marketing gimmick to make
it seem like you were getting more storage than you were.


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