Re: (OT) Help!! – Lost Gb’s during Hard Drive format!!

["mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Mal Lansell <mlansell@f...> wrote:
> It is if you're a lying HD manufacturer trying to make your disks
sound
> as big as possible.  To them 137Gb means 137,000,000,000 bytes.
This is
> roughly 127Gb when calculated properly (ie when powers of 2 reign
supreme)
>
> Mal
>

Alternative bias, saying the same thing :-)

How many joules in a gigajoule? How many watts in a gigawatt?

Actually, hard disk manufacturers are CORRECTLY following the
international standards body definition of giga (g) to mean 1,000,000,000.

This differentiates them from the stupid IT companies who think that,
just because they use powers of two, it somehow allows them to misuse
internationally recognised terms and put a subtly different meaning on
them.


It's worth noting that SOME companies use the lower-case g to mean 1
billion, and the upper-case G to mean 2 to the power of 30.

On that basis, 128 Gb = 137.43 gb

Others, of course, this being IT, use the lower-case G to mean 1
billion, and the upper-case g to mean 2 to the power of 30 :-)

Mark