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- From: rl@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (roger.h.levy)
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 17:57:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.175707.29098@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <lestrade.725128294@Ra.MsState.Edu> <s106275.725140761@ee.tut.fi> <1992Dec23.223142.3167@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec23.223142.3167@newshost.lanl.gov>, sct@beta.lanl.gov (Stephen Tenbrink) writes:
- > I believe that disk manufacters do list the "unformatted" capacity of their
- > drives. I'm not exactly sure how they come up with the value but it is
- > always a larger value than the formatted value and marketeers being what
- > they are will always give you the biggest number they can, even if it is
- > bogus.
- >
- We are not dealing with the difference between formatted and unformatted
- capacities here - just the difference between 2**20 (hexadecimal 100000)
- and 10**6 (decimal 1000000). If there is an ANSI definition of what a
- megabyte is, then it might be valid to say the advertising is bogus. I
- frankly don't know although it is far more common to mean 2**10 when
- talking about a megabyte.
- Roger
-