Gadget lust

[trixtah]

One terabyte. USB2. $AU1200.

OMFG.

Actually, I've noticed a trend where terabytes etc are expressed as 1000GB, when of course, they should be 1024GB. What do we call them then? Metric terabytes?

Comments

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Eh, 1000 or 1024 is pretty irrelevant, really--ALL the whoosis-byte labelling is fictive. You're doing *well* if you get 90% of the listed capacity as genuine usable space, so I just use the label capacity as a ranking method: I might not know how much it'll *really* hold, but 1 TB is bigger than 750 MB and smaller than 1.2 TB.

It's kind of like the temperature ratings on sleeping bags. I can guarantee you I'll freeze my a** off if I'm in a -10C-rated bag on a -10C night, but at least I'll be warmer than if I were in a 0C bag.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, too true. Once you've got the filesystem in place, it's really a punt as to how much actual space is available. "Ranking method" is an apt way of putting it, indeed.