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I will be the first to admit that I have an OCD where computers are concerned...Everything has to be organized in set categories, any increase in space that I was not aware of drives me nuts, and any bit of desktop and/or Superbar clutter drives me insane. You will rarely find more than 6 icons on the Superbar for me and no desktop icons at all. If I need to run an app I just type it in the search bar of the start menu.
I shutter when I see some desktops on here
Thanks Airbot,
My first intention was to place the ratios you gave when I wrote the piece,
but I feel for most people, the universal divide by 1024, is much easier to understand and remember than the ever changing ratios.
With the average (noob) user in mind, I thought I'd keep it as simple as possible.
But if people here think it should be added I am willing to put it in.
Let me know.
Greetz
I'd say you could just have your way as the first option, then put the ratio example as the second option, and let the user decide which way is best for them. :)
But, it's your thread, up to you.
There are actually terms for the computer worlds version of Kilo and Mega...
The drive companies are using the correct term when they say 500 Gigabytes. But when your computer says it is only 465 Gigabytes, that number is wrong for the above mentioned reasons. But.. In 1998 a set of terms to use when refering to the base 2 "versions" of the standard decimal prefixes were defined but have never really been adopted.
Windows SHOULD be reporting the values as "Kibibytes", "Mebibytes", Gibibytes", "Tebibytes" and so on.
So your 500 Gigabyte drive is a 465 Gibibyte drive.
The binary terms are abbreviated such as "KiB", "MiB", "GiB" and "TiB" instead of "kB", "MB", GB" and "TB".
No I'm right.
The manufacturers are reporting true decimal Gigabytes or 500*1000^3 bytes which is the tru capacity of the drive.
Windows reports 465 Gigabytes (GB) but that is actually wrong. What Windows /should/ say is that it is 465 Gibibytes (GiB) (465 * 1024^3)
Windows and Linux and all computer filesystems are actually reporting all values in true KiB, MiB and GiB, but because no one knows what those mean they improperly use the terms kB, MB and GB.
Yup, you're right.
Was turning around things myself. Sorry.
(i'll delete my previous post)
But still it's a rip off by the manufacturers because every thing else in the computer world is using the Kilo, Giga and Terra.
1 Gbyte of memory = 1 Gbyte of memory.
1 Gbyte of diskspace = 0.9313226 Gbyte of diskspace
So it is very convenient for them to make this exception in their favor.