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Wow, and I thought Disk Utility was only a piece of shit for hiding partitions from me :-) We've had at least one dispute with a customer who didn't get the "a
by mattbee 14y ago
Wow, and I thought Disk Utility was only a piece of shit for hiding partitions from me :-)
We've had at least one dispute with a customer who didn't get the "advertised" storage space when buying hosting - it's easy to you say this server has 8 x 500GB drives in a RAID10, but we've had a customer unhappy when 1.9 binary terabytes of data didn't fit onto that after RAID metadata, filesystem overhead etc.
So the new product (bigv.io) expresses storage and RAM in binary gigabytes, and I'm thinking I might convert all the dedicated server storage specifications away from lying drive manufacturer sizes, even if that means advertising a 465GiB disc. (or should we advertise size after ext3 overhead arrrggghh).
- klodolph 14y agoI hope you stick with the decimal units, because it means that if I have 8 x 500 GB drives, that's 4 GB. If I have 8 x 500 GiB, then I have 3.90625 TiB, which I need a calculator for. Frustrating and annoying. Stick with metric, it's easier on us humans.