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- From: albani@cadlab.sublink.org (Lanfranco Albani)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
- Subject: Re: Disk storage size?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.224751.1471@cadlab.sublink.org>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 22:47:51 GMT
- References: <0001@umd.edu> <1992Aug19.152525.15741@ornl.gov> <1992Aug19.172246.8264@news.eng.convex.com>
- Organization: CAD.LAB S.p.A., Bologna, Italia
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- :>In article <0001@umd.edu>, pc@umd.edu writes:
- :>>When people talk about 200MB disk, do they mean 200x1,000,000 byte, or
- :>>200x1024x1024 ? When talk about the RAM, people seems use 1k=1024, but
- :>>when go to disk, it is metric. Is this always the case?
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- For disk storage capacity, usually people use 1Mb for a 1,000,000 bytes.
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- Bye, Lanfranco
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