Re:Computer Scientists’ Trivia
by ben0x539 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:58AM
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I never hear anyone use the -bi units unless they're trying to be clever, and I'm fairly sure at most storage devices use the power-of-ten units. Am I alone in that?
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Storage devices use the power of 10 units correctly.
My 6TB drive has 6001175126016 bytes.
Windows probably still reports that as 5.5TB, although many Linux GUI tools now correctly say 5.5TiB, or 6TB.
(Being clever should be encouraged!)
That's even worse, because they're intentionally preying on the ignorance in an attempt to make the devices appear to have more space than they actually do.
Re:Computer Scientists’ Trivia
by mikehollinger on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:21AM
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It depends on the scale. I once got into a discussion that devolved into Tebibytes vs Terabytes for a project. The UI defaulted to TiB but offered a TB option if needed.
If the system has 100 Terabytes of storage - that's a significant difference.
TiB won out btw.