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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Archos HD UpgradeRe: Archos HD Upgrade
From: Bluechip <csbluechip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:23:04 +0000 >On 3/7/06, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_rockbox.org> wrote: > > Allow me to add to the confusion! ;-) > >Me too ;-) > >I just want to mention the binary prefixes by IEC standards. >Unfortunately these aren't commonly know. 1 kB = 1000 B and 1 kiB = >1024 B. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes LMAO ROTFLMAO That is hilarious ..."kibibyte" ...this HAS to be the work of a Pastafarian. Computers work in base 2, 1's and 0's ...a Kilo in the world of computers is 2^10==1024, not 10^3==1000 Mega is still a Kilo Kilo Giga is still a Kilo Kilo Kilo etc. Hard drive manufacturers are just plain WRONG! In fact, they have been criticised for it so much that they hit a dilemma. Do we change to fit the standard and confuse people, or stay put and confuse people. Just last week I built a machine for a friend and laughed (quite literally) when I read "a Megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes" on the sticker on the hard drive. That is their solution ...if only they hadn;t tried to blag us in the first place, they would not have to print clarifications on their stickers. BC > > 137GB is the amount of data if one gigabyte is 1000,000,000 bytes. If a > > gigabyte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes as in the computer world outside the silly > > harddrive manufacturers, the limit is 128GB. > >It's not only the silly HDD manufacturers (137GB would be correct) but >also various silly operating systems like windows who think 1 GB = >1024 kB. And lots of computer people who haven't noticed the >not-really-new SI prefixes. Speaking with the standardized naming, the >mentioned disk would be 137 GB or 128 GiB. > >HTH (this time clearing the confusion ;-) >- Dominik Received on 2006-03-07 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |