On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Jim Klimov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 1024 vs 1000 is another way around: a 3TB disk is > 3000000000000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 2.72Tb or > 3000000000000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 2793.97Gb > > Times 9, and that amounts to 24.55Tb or 25145.7Gb > > (I am sometimes confused by "b" vs. "B" in such decimal vs. binary > notations, so maybe that should have been written another way around) > Sorry, this is off topic, but this bothers me a little: "b" means bit, not 1024-flavored SI (as in 6Gbps SATA). 1024-flavored terabyte is officially TiB, and said Tebibyte, though I haven't heard many people using it: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabit. Tim _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
