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Posted June 14th, 2010 02:00
Thanks for great reply, it seems not a stupid question.
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Posted June 14th, 2010 02:00
You're welcome. I'd say: spread the word and educate people to use GiB when then mean binary Gigabytes !
Another thing is that loads of people say SAN when in fact they mean Storage Array... I keep telling them that SAN is a network, not something you can storage data on, but hey..... people store data on a LAN as well, or do they ?
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Posted July 12th, 2010 14:00
Interesting. I was trying to do the same awareness education to my team in my project. Good question and nice answer.
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Posted July 13th, 2010 02:00
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Posted June 14th, 2010 01:00
Giga means billion, so a 300GB disk is 300,000,000,000 bytes.
When you talk about binary Gigabytes, you should write this as GiB, meaning Gibibyte. 12 Years ago this new standard was introduced in the SI system. Allthough this is a standard for a long time, almost nobody knows about this and is asking "where did all my space go to ?", while in fact they don't know what GB means.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix
Good question ! At least you're asking !!