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Disk 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 tha
by wiml 6y ago
Disk 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?