Assorted spelling fixes

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at baikal.ru
Sun Feb 16 08:20:39 CST 2014


Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> wrote:

> > It's more ambiguous for e.g. file or disk sizes where drive vendors 
> > often use 1000 based units,
> 
> <offtopic>
> 
> And it's getting even more confusing. Some time ago I bought a 60 GB SSD 
> which was really 60 * 1024 * 1024 KB. That makes sense since SSDs are 
> after all more like DIMMS than hard drives. But more recently I bought a 
> 240 GB SSD which turned out to be 240,000,000 KB.
> 
> So for SSDs there's no telling what GB means anymore :-(

That's been always a trick HDD vendors were playing for decades to
fool the users, and it has nothing todo with the actual mening of
those abbrevations.

-- 
Dmitry.



More information about the wine-devel mailing list