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The correct answer in metric is 9.98 Gg (gigagrams). > we're still measuring disk sizes in half-kibibytes by default Where do you see that? Marketing and oper
by nayuki 4y ago
The correct answer in metric is 9.98 Gg (gigagrams).
> we're still measuring disk sizes in half-kibibytes by default
Where do you see that? Marketing and operating systems always measure disk sizes in bytes (or KB, KiB, MB, etc.), not sectors. Only in low-level tools like some hex editors and disk partitioners do I see data measured in sectors.
> the sector sizes have actually been 4/8 KiB for years
512-B sectors for hard drives and flash drives, yes. But I'm too young to recall whether older hard and floppy disks had varying sector sizes. I can say, though, that CD's sector size is either 2048 bytes (data mode), 2324 bytes (XA), or some other value in other modes.
- Joker_vD 4y ago> Where do you see that? Precisely where you've described; I've also seen "du" use it once, although it normally uses 1 KiB blocks (one of the very few things that I agree with rms on). > 512-B sectors for hard drives and flash drives, They've been using 4 KiB sectors since 2011; the 512-bytes sectors are emulated in the controller: [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format
- Dylan16807 4y ago> The correct answer in metric is 9.98 Gg (gigagrams). 10 gigagrams. It's a rough estimate of 500 tons per story. But tonne is a perfectly good "unit officially accepted for use with the SI". If you're willing to use "minute" and "liter" you should be fine with tonne.
- mangamadaiyan 4y agoOlder SCSI HDDs allowed you to format them with whatever sector size you wanted. Sector sizes that were greater than 512 bytes were not uncommon.
- mangamadaiyan 4y agoThis is the quickest (indirect) reference I could find: https://linux.die.net/man/8/sg_format https://linux.die.net/man/8/sg_format