Re: USB key && NTFS

Hi Daniel,

Right you are! To me there is only one GB (1,073,741,824 bytes) and I try my hardest to avoid other definitions of the term... and it shows. ;)

Cheers,
Alex
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Jan 17, 2024 14:40:25 Daniel Tameling <tamelingdaniel@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 10:05:07PM +0100, Alexander Burke wrote:
>> 
>> They meant 128 GiB, but somehow the `i` tends to avoid the printing process Wikipedia blames the IEC for this disparity, but I call it cheating.
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte#Definition
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it's the other way round: for storage, manufactures generally use a
> conversion factor of 1000, which doesn't have the "i" in the unit. The
> "i" denotes a conversion factor of 1024, which leads to smaller
> numbers. However, omitting the "i" when using 1024 is also very
> common.
> 
> The wikipedia article you linked has a little bit further down the
> following passage: "This means that a 300 GB (279 GiB) hard disk might
> be indicated variously as "300 GB", "279 GB" or "279 GiB", depending
> on the operating system."
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel