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It just randomly so happened that drive manufacturers used the meaning that benefitted them and is not really used by anyone else
by ATsch 6y ago
It just randomly so happened that drive manufacturers used the meaning that benefitted them and is not really used by anyone else
- throw0101a 6y agoIt just randomly so happened that drive manufacturers used the meaning of what the SI folks said the meaning actually was.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoWhile I'll admit they do have a slightly better case here, basically every OS's definition is more important than the SI. They clearly did it to make their drives look bigger. As proof, why are they sticking behind old SI definitions 25 years after they added the other ones?
- throw0101a 6y ago> As proof, why are they sticking behind old SI definitions 25 years after they added the other ones? Because hard drives, going back to the original (the IBM 350), have used decimal prefixes.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoAt best, that means they should have switched when SSD's happened. Given what this article is about, I don't know why you're giving HD manufacturers the benefit of the doubt.