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.
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