WD Caviar 300 GB?

[Ron Reaugh]

Little k (kilo) is 1000. K is 1024. Two
different units, two different symbols.

NOPE, cite a reference.

 

[Rod Speed]

Little k (kilo) is 1000. K is 1024. Two
different units, two different symbols.

Its much more complicated than that and you dont see hard
drive manufacturers listing their drives as say 200gB anyway.

 

[J. Clarke]

I don't mind that since we have become accustomed to it. What I find
to be disengenuous is when AMD brands their CPUs with a numerical
value which is easily misinterpreted as the internal speed. Then you
learn the truth.

For example the AMD "Athlon 64 3800+" is actually a 2.4GHz CPU.

So? As long as all processors in the same family are marked consistently it
doesn't matter to me.

 

[J. Clarke]

To give the devil (M$) his due, if you show the properties of a HD,
WinDuhs will display the space (used, free, and capacity) in bytes
and in (software) GBs. That dual display does, at least, make it
obvious how much space is "lost" due to M$'s spacey arithmetic.

My first choice would be for M$ to conform to SI standards for HD size
prefixes, as HD vendors do. But M$ will likely do what they want, and
the confusion will likely continue. <Sigh>

Actually none of them adhere to the SI standards, which do not use
capitalization to distinguish between decimal and binary but instead
require that the letter "i" be inserted to denote binary.

For more information see <http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html>