[mythtv-users] seagate giving refunds out

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/10/2007 09:50 AM, Fred Squires wrote:
>> They all are--because there's a difference between GB and GiB, and the
>> manufacturers know what it is.  Unfortunately, they're selling to an
>> uneducated public.
>>     
> It seems to me that the manufacturers probably made up the GiB so they
> could sell 466 GB drives as 500 GB and not technically lie.
> When was the GiB made up anyway, I've only seen it over the course of
> that last few years.

If, in fact, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has
begun making hard drives, perhaps.

http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/binary.html

Mike