Monday, January 04, 2010

[qtpdyfav] Decimal and Binary Metric Prefixes

Hard drive manufacturers typically express disk sizes with decimal metric prefixes. Memory sizes are expressed with binary metric prefixes.

DiskMemory
1 GB0.93 GB
1.07 GB1 GB
1.5 GB1.40 GB
2 GB1.86 GB
3.5 GB3.26 GB
5 GB4.66 GB
7.5 GB6.98 GB
1 TB0.91 TB
1.10 TB1 TB
1.5 TB1.36 TB
2 TB1.82 TB
3.5 TB3.18 TB
5 TB4.55 TB
7.5 TB6.82 TB

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