MiB in gparted?
Mario Vukelic
mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Tue Feb 10 20:17:10 UTC 2009
Pls disregard the whole post, reading the other replies I realized that
I totally misunderstood the poster. Sorry for wasting the bandwidth ;)
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:51 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:03 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > However, I can't really say that I can see clearly why MiB is
> > necessary these days. Why not just skip it and only use MB, GB and so
> > on, really meaning MB, GB and so on?
>
> As I said before to Dave, go complain to the hardware manufacturers who
> redefined GB to mean 1000 MB in order to be able to claim bigger sizes
> on the packages
>
> > All hard drives capacity are in MB, GB or TB anyway, not MiB, GiB or
> > TiB.
>
> Not where I live. The *claim* to be "320 GB" or something on the
> packaging, but that's really the 1000 MB variant and the small print
> says so.
>
> > What's wrong with saying 65,6 kB instead of 64,0 KiB? My interna drive
> > in this old laptop is 160 GB, so why would I say 149 GiB?
>
> Have you verified that?
>
>
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