27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
2:42 p.m.
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
IBM has been rating hard drives in millions (or
thousands perhaps) of
characters since they started making them. "MB" meaning "Million
bytes" for magnetic storage media is hardly a new thing, from what I
can determine.
Not that they've been consistent either... "360kB" through
"1.44MB"
floppies, for instance.
IBM does not use 2**20, NOR 10**6 for meg of disk space!
For a meg of memory, they use 1048576, Mebi, 2**20, but
for a meg of disk space, they use 1024000, 1000Kibi, 2**10 * 10**3