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Old February 10th, 2008, 05:48 PM     #20 (permalink)
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Peter M:

What hard drive manufacturer do you work for? Do you know the history of this IS & how this measure was established?

Lets see. Let's blame everyone else, OSs, utilities, other software, computers, processors, flashcards, etc, because they are reporting a binary number as a GB, MB, etc, a convention that predates this particular IS. Which label makes sense technically for computers and how they work?

And which # works better to inflate capacity as a sales tool. Who benefits from the confusion? Who is creating the confusion? It is the only reason hard drive manufacturers have for not following the historic norm for this measurement in computer technology.

But you do "win" on a technicality! If you post it enough times here, others might even believe in your "rightness" over those stupid enough around computers to not be aware that HD manufacturers are using a different scale.

Dave
Welcome to TechIMO but i think your beating on a year old horse my friend...
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