5 ms·
Networking is also a binary world, yet nobody is using binary prefixes. Storage manufacturers have been using decimal prefixes for decades, you should probably
by hocuspocus 6y ago
Networking is also a binary world, yet nobody is using binary prefixes.
Storage manufacturers have been using decimal prefixes for decades, you should probably get over it at this point.
- deaddodo 6y agoWhat do you mean? Networking is definitely done in binary standards. Your router/switch/NIC is almost definitely rated in a bitrate standard.
- qeternity 6y agoBitrates are base 10...
- protomyth 6y agoYep. Communication is its own confusing world given the odd packet sizes. Look up a jumbo frame discussion and reading it efficiently into pages of memory for a bit of a head bender.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoIEEE units are base 10. 10Gb/s is 10,000,000,000 bits per second.
- wiml 6y agoDisk manufacturers use a hybrid system, don't they, since the sectors are powers-of-two but they use decimal multipliers to inflate the size beyond that? So that a "marketing gigabyte" might actually be a megakibibyte.
- dataflow 6y agoDon't forget 1.44M floppies.
- derekp7 6y agoWhat is really funny is the size is really 1440 KiB, which is not 1.44 MiB and is also not 1.44 million bytes. So in that case it was a mixture of the two units (they would have been better off calling them 1.47 MB, as the actual size was 1474560 bytes, or 1.406 MiB which is the actual size divided by 1048576).
- JdeBP 6y agoThose are like 3M floppies, but not quite half as good, right? (-: * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/1mb44-is-not-a-standard-floppy-disc-size.html http://jdebp.uk./FGA/1mb44-is-not-a-standard-floppy-disc-siz... Or are they not quite half as wide?
- varjag 6y agoHow about 10 bit bytes then, would only make more sense, right?
- wmf 6y agoFibre Channel and Infiniband tried that.