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Subject:
DIFFERENCE IN MEASURING HDD CAPACITY
From:
Roberto Safora <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 10 May 1999 15:36:55 -0400
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How could you commercially specify, talking about HDD capacity, that 1 KB= 1024 Bytes and not 1000 bytes?
The problem comes when you say to some body that the disk is 9.X GB and the system reports only 8.X GB

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