Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Fri Mar 27 00:32:52 UTC 2009


Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 08:13 +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
>
>   
>> TBH, I just bursted into a laugh attack....for easyiness: 500 Gigabytes
>> as written on a Harddrive label are not the same as 500 Gigabytes
>> transfered over the Network (when you know HD vendor definition: kilo ==
>> 1000 and Network vendor definition normally kilo == 1024)
>>
>>     
> The latter isn't true either.
>
> Network speeds are generally in thousands of bits per second and
> multiples thereof.
>   
I don't know about you but I have never seen any network speed measured 
at anything other than the 1024 bits/bytes = 1 kilo and so on.
>
> The primary users of binary multiples is the RAM industry, since it's a
> fundamental multiple of how RAM works.
>
>   
I have only noticed disk manufacturers put a footnote out saying that 
their KB/GB/whatever is defined as 1000 and not 1024. Everybody else 
uses the standard unit of every 1024 for kilo/mega/giga/whatever.




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