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- From: f88tomas@fy.chalmers.se (Tomas Bengtsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Quantum LP120S
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.000856.23600@fy.chalmers.se>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 00:08:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.021320.21415@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Dec16.105642.28738@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: usenet@fy.chalmers.se
- Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, G|teborg, Sweden
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- > You should get approx. 115-116 MB from a 120 drive. 114 may be right, but
- > it sounds like you are one meg or two short. Also, Quantum has their own
- > definition of MB on some of their drives: 1 MB = 1000000 bytes !
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- Well, this isn't actually their own definition, it is actually the ISO standard.
- The difference using the old 1 024 = 1k gets to large when we nowadays start to
- work with Giga, Tera or Exabyte. As an example a "false" TB is 1,10*10^12 bytes,
- which is 10 percent off.
-
- Tomas
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