[nylug-talk] Recommendations for encrypted tape drive(s)?

[Chris Knadle]

> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > bites, kilobits and megabits are also all not equal in scale.
> > a kilobyte 1024 bits and a megabyte is is even more distorted.

On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> Hard drives used to be measured in powers of 2 or 10, randomly, but
> recently, manufactures to inflate capacity moved to powers of 10. Thus,
> 500GB hard drive is really roughly 500,000,000,000 bytes. (Used to be,
> though, 536,870,912,000 - a 7.3% difference).
...
> (yes, technically, we should be talking in gibibytes and mebibytes, when
> we actually mean units of 1024, but imho, those are retarded, and nobody
> uses it).

   The way it was explained in my college computer programming classes "kilo" 
meant 1024 for computers but 1000 for other engineering SI units, but that's 
a contradiction that leads to confusion.  I share your opinion, but at the 
same time I like the fact that there's a way to distinguish between the two 
that illeviates the confusion.  Like anything else adoption of the new unit 
is a little slow, however I now commonly see amounts listed in GiB and MiB.  
I often forget about the newer units, though, so I often forget to use them 
myself and write TB instead of TiB.  ;-)  I'll get there eventually.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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