Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better
by robocat on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @07:29PM
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Redefining meanings is like defining π = 3.
SI metric prefix standards really really matter to an engineer. The creation of a new indistinguishable unit which varies depending on what was measured (so that 1k != 1k) is mind-bogglingly idiotic in this old engineer’s opinion.
As a child I too felt the pain of feeling “shortchanged” by hardware manufacturers’ marketing practices with hard drive sizes, and I deeply understand the glamour of using 1024 based decimals for declaring total memory. However the cost of differing values for metric prefixes (k, M, G) is confusion, mistakes, and arguments. I also think that any card carrying geek knows their measurements, and cannot be easily deceived. Another argument for why software engineers are not. Disclaimer: last gig was JavaScript.
SI metric prefix standards really really matter to an engineer. The creation of a new indistinguishable unit which varies depending on what was measured (so that 1k != 1k) is mind-bogglingly idiotic in this old engineer’s opinion.
As a child I too felt the pain of feeling “shortchanged” by hardware manufacturers’ marketing practices with hard drive sizes, and I deeply understand the glamour of using 1024 based decimals for declaring total memory. However the cost of differing values for metric prefixes (k, M, G) is confusion, mistakes, and arguments. I also think that any card carrying geek knows their measurements, and cannot be easily deceived. Another argument for why software engineers are not. Disclaimer: last gig was JavaScript.