Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System CLI Guide

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Size representations

Operating systems usually show volume size in base 2. Disk drives usually show size in base 10. Memory (RAM and ROM) size is always shown in base 2.

In the CLI, the base for entry and display of storage-space sizes can be set per user or per session; see create user and set set cli-parameters. When entering storage-space sizes only, either base-2 or base-10 units can be specified.

Table 1. Size representations in base 2 and base 10
Base 2		Base 10
Unit	Size in bytes	Unit	Size in bytes
KiB (kibibyte)	1,024	KB (kilobyte)	1,000
MiB (mebibyte)	1,024	MB (megabyte)	1,000
GiB (gibibyte)	1,024	GB (gigabyte)	1,000
TiB (tebibyte)	1,024	TB (terabyte)	1,000
PiB (pebibyte)	1,024	PB (petabyte)	1,000
EiB (exbibyte)	1,024	EB (exabyte)	1,000

The locale setting determines the character used for the decimal (radix) point, as shown in the following table:

Table 2. Decimal (radix) point character by locale
Language	Character	Examples
English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean	Period (.)	146.81 GB 3.0 Gb/s
French, German, Spanish	Comma (,)	146,81 GB 3,0 Gb/s